Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.