If You Are As Happy

Liberty Must Be Allowed To Work Out Its Natural Results; And These Will, Ere Long, Astonish The World.

The Course Of Events Is So Rapidly Hastening Forward That The Emergency May Soon Arise When You May Be Called Upon To Decide The Momentous Question Whether You Possess The Power By Force Of Arms To Compel A State To Remain In The Union

Whatever The Result May Be, I Shall Carry To My Grave The Consciousness That I At Least Meant Well For My Country.

The Government Of The United States Possesses No Power Whatever Over The Question Of Religion.

Our Union Rests Upon Public Opinion, And Can Never Be Cemented By The Blood Of Its Citizens Shed In Civil War.