Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

Honesty is always the best policy.

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?