You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

Never let your correspondence fall behind.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.