Slavery Exists. It Is Black In The

I Have Been Almost Overwhelmed By The Announcement Of The Sad Event [lincoln's Assassination] Which Has So Recently Occurred. I Feel Incompetent To Perform Duties So Important And Responsible As Those Which Have Been So Unexpectedly Thrown Upon Me.

Let Us Look Forward To The Time When We Can Take The Flag Of Our Country And Nail It Below The Cross, And There Let It Wave As It Waved In The Olden Times, And Let Us Gather Around It And Inscribed For Our Motto: 'liberty And Union, One And Inseparable, Now And Forever,' And Exclaim, 'christ First, Our Country Next!'

I Feel Incompetent To Perform Duties...which Have Been So Unexpectedly Thrown Upon Me.

I Never Thought I Would Be Impeached.

I Have Lived Among Negroes, All My Life, And I Am For This Government With Slavery Under The Constitution As It Is. I Am For The Government Of My Fathers With Negroes. I Am For It Without Negroes. Before I Would See This Government Destroyed I Would Send Every Negro Back To Africa, Disintegrated And Blotted Out Of Space