Avoid Popularity If You Would Have Peace.

We Want, And Must Have, A National Policy, As To Slavery, Which Deals With It As Being Wrong.

Determine That The Thing Can And Shall Be Done And Then... Find The Way.

I Am For . . . Each Individual Doing Just As He Chooses In All Matters Which Concern Nobody Else.

Doubtless You Begin To Understand How Disagreeable It Is To Me To Do A Thing Arbitrarily, When It Is Unsatisfactory To Others Associated With Me.

I Wish To See, In Process Of Disappearing, That Only Thing Which Ever Could Bring This Nation To Civil War.