Stand by your principles; stand by your guns; and victory complete and permanent is sure at the last.

In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.

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.

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.

I am sorry any republican inclines to dally with Pop. Sov. [popular sovereignty] of any sort. It acknowledges that slavery has equal rights with liberty, and surrenders all we have contended for.

I shall endeavor to take the ground I deem most just to the North, the East, the West, the South, and the whole country.