I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.