After the White House what is there to do but drink?

In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.