Of All Knaves The Religious Knave Is

The Founders Of The Republic Dealt With Things As They Were Presented To Them, In A Spirit Of Self Sacrificing Patriotism And As Time Has Proved, With A Comprehensive Wisdom Which It Will Always Be Safe For Us To Consult

The Dangers Of A Concentration Of All Power In The General Government Of A Confederacy So Vast As Ours Are Too Obvious To Be Disregarded.

With The Union My Best And Dearest Earthly Hopes Are Entwined.

I Cannot Find Any Authority In The Constitution For Public Charity.

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.