It Will Be All Right If It

In Politics I Am Growing Indifferent - I Would Like It, If I Could Now Return To My Planting And Books At Home

Let No Guilty Man Escape, If It Can He Avoided. . . . No Personal Consideration Should Stand In The Way Of Performing A Public Duty.

All Secret Oath-bound Political Parties Are Dangerous To Any Nation, No Matter How Pure Or How Patriotic The Motives And Principles Which First Bring Them Together.

The Cause Of The Great War Of The Rebellion Against The United States Will Have To Be Attributed To Slavery. For Some Years Before The War Began It Was A Trite Saying Among Some Politicians That "a State Half Slave And Half Free Cannot Exist." All Must Become Slave Or All Free, Or The State Will Go Down. I Took No Part Myself In Any Such View Of The Case At The Time, But Since The War Is Over, Reviewing The Whole Question, I Have Come To The Conclusion That The Saying Is Quite True.

My Family Is American, And Has Been For Generations, In All Its Branches, Direct And Collateral