In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.