Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.