I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

Common sense is very uncommon.

While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.