The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

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!

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

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

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!'

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

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