The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.