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

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

Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

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.

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

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.