Every Expert Was Once A Beginner.

Disunion And Civil War Are At Hand; And Yet I Fear Disunion And War Less Than Compromise. We Can Recover From Them. The Free States Alone, If We Must Go On Alone, Will Make A Glorious Nation. Twenty Millions In The Temperate Zone, Stretching From The Atlantic To The Pacific, Full Of Vigor, Industry, Inventive Genius, Educated, And Moral; Increasing By Immigration Rapidly, And, Above All, Free--all Free--will Form A Confederacy Of Twenty States Scarcely Inferior In Real Power To The Unfortunate Union Of Thirty-three States Which We Had On The First Of November.

General [john] Pope Is Impulsive And Hasty, But Energetic, And, What Is Of Most Importance, Patriotic And Sound--perfectly Sound.i Look For Good Results.

We Are In A Period When Old Questions Are Settled And The New Are Not Yet Brought Forward. Extreme Party Action, If Continued In Such A Time, Would Ruin The Party. Moderation Is Its Only Chance. The Party Out Of Power Gains By All Partisan Conduct Of Those In Power

One Point In My Public Life: I Did All I Could For The Reform Of The Civil Service, For The Building Up Of The South, For A Soundcurrency, Etc., Etc., But I Never Forgot My Party.... I Knew That All Good Measures Would Suffer If My Administration Was Followed By The Defeat Of My Party. Result, A Great Victory In 1880. Executive And Legislature Both Completely Republican.

Nobody Ever Left The Presidency With Less Regret, Less Disappointment, Fewer Heart Burnings, Or Any General Content With The Result Of His Term (in His Own Heart, I Mean) Than I Do. Full Of Difficulty And Trouble At First, I Now Find Myself On Smooth Waters And Under Bright Skies.