Of All Knaves The Religious Knave Is

While Men Inhabiting Different Parts Of This Vast Continent Cannot Be Expected To Hold The Same Opinions, They Can Unite In A Common Objective And Sustain Common Principles.

I Speak Of The War As Fruitless; For It Is Clear That, Prosecuted Upon The Basis Of The Proclamations Of September 22d And September 24th, 1862, Prosecuted, As I Must Understand These Proclamations, To Say Nothing Of The Kindred Blood Which Has Followed, Upon The Theory Of Emancipation, Devastation, Subjugation, It Cannot Fail To Be Fruitless In Every Thing Except The Harvest Of Woe Which It Is Ripening For What Was Once The Peerless Republic.

A Republic Without Parties Is A Complete Anomaly. The Histories Of All Popular Governments Show Absurd Is The Idea Of Their Attempting To Exist Without Parties.

Readily And, I Trust, Feelingly Acknowledge The Duty Incumbent On Us All . . . To Provide For Those Who, In The Mysterious Order Of Providence, Are Subject To Want And To Disease Of Body Or Mind; But I Cannot Find Any Authority In The Constitution For Making The Federal Government The Great Almoner Of Public Charity Throughout The United States . . . .

In A Body [like Congress] Where There Are More Than One Hundred Talking Lawyers, You Can Make No Calculation Upon The Termination Of Any Debate.