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I Have Never Advocated War Except As A Means Of Peace.

I Leave Comparisons To History, Claiming Only That I Have Acted In Every Instance From A Conscientious Desire To Do What Was Right, Constitutional, Within The Law, And For The Very Best Interests Of The Whole People. Failures Have Been Errors Of Judgment, Not Of Intent.

Ah, You Know My Weaknesses--my Children And My Horses.

I Feel That We Are On The Eve Of A New Era, When There Is To Be Great Harmony Between The Federal And Confederate. I Cannot Stay To Be A Living Witness To The Correctness Of This Prophecy; But I Feel It Within Me That It Is To Be So.

...i Never Heard Him Abuse An Enemy. Some Of The Cruel Things Said About President Lincoln, Particularly In The North, Used To Pierce Him To The Heart; But Never In My Presence Did He Evince A Revengeful Disposition.