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The Best Hopes Of Any Community Rest Upon That Class Of Its Gifted Young Men Who Are Not Encumbered With Large Possessions.... I Now Speak Of Extensive Scholarship And Ripe Culture In Science And Art.... It Is Not Large Possessions, It Is Large Expectations, Or Rather Large Hopes, That Stimulate The Ambition Of The Young.

The Ex-presidential Situation Has Its Advantages, But With Them Are Certain Drawbacks. The Correspondence Is Large. The Meritorious Demands On One Are Large. More Independent Out Than In Place, But Still Something Of The Bondage Of The Place That Was Willingly Left. On The Whole, However, I Find Many Reasons To Be Content.

We All Agree That Neither The Government Nor Political Parties Ought To Interfere With Religious Sects. It Is Equally True That Religious Sects Ought Not To Interfere With The Government Or With Political Parties. We Believe That The Cause Of Good Government And The Cause Of Religion Both Suffer By All Such Interference.

If Any Of My Men Kill Prisoners, I'll Kill Them.

General [john] Pope Is Impulsive And Hasty, But Energetic, And, What Is Of Most Importance, Patriotic And Sound--perfectly Sound.i Look For Good Results.