Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for your self or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, never communicate, as from yourself, or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.