Of All Knaves The Religious Knave Is

The Revenue Of The Country, Levied Almost Insensibly To The Taxpayer, Goes On From Year To Year, Increasing Beyond Either The Interests Or The Prospective Wants Of The Government.

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

In Expressing Briefly My Views Upon An Important Subject Which Has Recently Agitated The Nation..., I Fervently Hope That The Question Is At Rest And That No Sectional Or Ambitious Or Fanatical Excitement May Again Threaten The Durability Of Our Institutions.

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.

Of All Knaves The Religious Knave Is The Worst.