Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.