A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

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.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

Anxiety beclouds the future.

Never let your correspondence fall behind.