If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.