I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.

The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers.