If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.