I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country.

Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later the victory is sure to come

I have enlisted for the permanent success of the Republican cause; and, for this object, I shall labor faithfully in the ranks, unless, as I think not probable, the judgment of the party shall assign me a different position.

What is our present condition? We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten, before we take the offices.

No party can command respect which sustains this year, what it opposed last.