I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'