I Hold It The Duty Of The

I Have Been Almost Overwhelmed By The Announcement Of The Sad Event [lincoln's Assassination] Which Has So Recently Occurred. I Feel Incompetent To Perform Duties So Important And Responsible As Those Which Have Been So Unexpectedly Thrown Upon Me.

Notwithstanding A Mendacious Press; Notwithstanding A Subsidized Gang Of Hirelings Who Have Not Ceased To Traduce Me, I Have Discharged All My Official Duties And Fulfilled My Pledges. And I Say Here Tonight That If My Predecessor Had Lived, The Vials Of Wrath Would Have Poured Out Upon Him.

If The Rabble Were Lopped Off At One End And The Aristocrat At The Other, All Would Be Well With The Country.

Washington, Dc Is 12 Square Miles Bordered By Reality.

There Are No Good Laws But Such As Repeal Other Laws.