Political Quotes

the object of the war being to restore and maintain the blessings of peace and good government, I desire you to help, and not hinder, every advance in that direction.

The expediency of any legislation upon the subject is submitted for your consideration.

He wished the reunion of all the States perfected and so effected as to remove all causes of disturbance in the future;

Your having shown me Mr. Davis's letter to you of the 12th instant, you may say to him that I have constantly been, am now, and shall continue ready to receive any agent whom he or any other influential person now resisting the national authority may informally send to me with the view of securing peace to the people of our one common country.