Conscience Is The Authentic Voice Of God

These Semi-traitors [union Generals Who Were Not Hostile To Slavery] Must Be Watched. Let Us Be Careful Who Become Army Leaders In The Reorganized Army At The End Of This Rebellion. The Man Who Thinks That The Perpetuity Of Slavery Is Essential To The Existence Of The Union, Is Unfit To Be Trusted. The Deadliest Enemy The Union Has Is Slavery - In Fact, Its Only Enemy.

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

Crimes Increase As Education, Opportunity, And Property Decrease. Whatever Spreads Ignorance, Poverty And, Discontent Causes Crime.... Criminals Have Their Own Responsibility, Their Own Share Of Guilt, But They Are Merely The Hand.... Whoever Interferes With Equal Rights And Equal Opportunities Is In Some Real Degree, Responsible For The Crimes Committed In The Community.

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.

He [william Merritt Chase] Is, I Suspect, Getting A Very Truthful Likeness. I Would Like It Better If [it] Was Not So Gray, So Cramped About The Eyes, And Not Quite So Corpulent. But Is This Not Quarreling With Nature?