I Expect To Maintain This Contest Until

I Do The Very Best I Know How - The Very Best I Can; And I Mean To Keep On Doing So Until The End.

When I Came Of Age I Did Not Know Much. Still Somehow, I Could Read, Write, And Cipher To The Rule Of Three.... The Little Advancei Now Have Upon This Store Of Education, I Have Picked Up From Time To Time Under The Pressure Of Necessity.

We Must Ask Where We Are And Whither We Are Tending.

The People When Rightly And Fully Trusted Will Return The Trust.

I Have Just Read Your Dispatch About Sore-tongued And Fatigued Horses, Will You Pardon Me For Asking What The Horses Of Your Army Have Done Since The Battle Of Antietam That Fatigues Anything?