War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

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.

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

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

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come, I am there.

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.