Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
If you have never failed you have never lived.
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.