War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better. Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their just punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjust.

We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

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

I intend to make Georgia howl.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!