I Never Justify, Sustain, Or In Any

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

In A Body [like Congress] Where There Are More Than One Hundred Talking Lawyers, You Can Make No Calculation Upon The Termination Of Any Debate.

I Can Express No Better Hope For My Country Than That The Kind Providence Which Smiled Upon Our Fathers May Enable Their Children To Preserve The Blessings They Have Inherited.

While Men Inhabiting Different Parts Of This Vast Continent Cannot Be Expected To Hold The Same Opinions, They Can Unite In A Common Objective And Sustain Common Principles.

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.