We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

[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.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.