You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.