My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
The unspoken word never does harm.
Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.