My Right Side Is Paralyzed. I Need

There Are No Good Laws But Such As Repeal Other Laws.

Let Them Impeach And Be Damned.

I Have Been Almost Overwhelmed By The Announcement Of The Sad Event [lincoln's Assassination] Which Has So Recently Occurred. I Feel Incompetent To Perform Duties So Important And Responsible As Those Which Have Been So Unexpectedly Thrown Upon Me.

Who, Then, Will Govern? The Answer Must Be, Man - For We Have No Angels In The Shape Of Men, As Yet, Who Are Willing To Take Charge Of Our Political Affairs.

Let Us Look Forward To The Time When We Can Take The Flag Of Our Country And Nail It Below The Cross, And There Let It Wave As It Waved In The Olden Times, And Let Us Gather Around It And Inscribed For Our Motto: 'liberty And Union, One And Inseparable, Now And Forever,' And Exclaim, 'christ First, Our Country Next!'