If You Are As Happy,

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

There Is Nothing Stable But Heaven And The Constitution.

The Storm Of Frenzy And Faction Must Inevitably Dash Itself In Vain Against The Unshaken Rock Of The Constitution.

If You Are As Happy, My Dear Sir, On Entering This House As I Am In Leaving It And Returning Home, You Are The Happiest Man In This Country.

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