If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.