You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.