Their object is disunion.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.

Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from the infancy of our Republic to the present day, that He will so overrule all my intentions and actions and inspire the hearts of my fellow-citizens that we may be preserved from dangers of all kinds and continue forever a united and happy people.