The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

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.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.