Every head should be cultivated.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.