My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.