In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.