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

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.

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!

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.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

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!'