Political Quotes

With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the duty required under the most favorable circumstances, and now rendered doubly difficult by existing national perils…

Allow the bearer, F. P. Blair, sr., to pass our lines, go South, and return.

But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly began yesterday.

In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have complete power to exclude from counting all electoral votes deemed by them to be illegal, and it is not competent for the…