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.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.

There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.