Perhaps The Happiest Moment Of My Life

My Policy Is Trust Peace And To Put Aside The Bayonet.

No Capitalists After Any War Were Ever So Well Paid For Money Loaned To The Nation That Carried It On. No Class Of Money-makers Ever Gained Such Prosperity By Any Other War, As Our War For The Union Brought To The Money-getters Of America. All This Was Due In Great Measure To The Rank And File Of The Union Army. Now Let No Rich Man Haggle With A Needy Veteran Of That War About His Right To A Pension!

Busy Replying To Letters From Divers Office-seekers. They Come By The Dozens.

I Would Honor The Man Who Give To His Country A Good Newspaper.

It Could Be Clearly Proved That By A Practical Nullification [by The South] Of The Fifteenth Amendment The Republicans Have For Several Years Been Deprived Of A Majority In Both The House And Senate. The Failure Of The South To Faithfully Observe The Fifteenth Amendment Is The Cause Of The Failure Of All Efforts Towards Complete Pacification. It Is On This Hook That The Bloody Shirt Now Hangs.