Congressmen Who Willfully Take Action During Wartime

Tact Is The Ability To Describe Others As They See Themselves.

So Viewing The Issue, No Choice Was Left But To Call Out The War Power Of The Government; And So To Resist Force, Employed For Its Destruction, By Force, For Its Preservation.

I Have Simply Tried To Do What Seemed Best Each Day, As Each Day Came.

At The Beginning Of The War, And For Some Time, The Use Of Colored Troops Was Not Contemplated; And How The Change Of Purpose Was Wrought, I Will Not Now Take Time To Explain. Upon A Clear Conviction Of Duty I Resolved To Turn That Element Of Strength To Account; And I Am Responsible For It To The American People, To The Christian World, To History, And On My Final Account To God.

The Plainest Print Cannot Be Read Through A Gold Eagle.