It is fair that each man shall pay taxes in exact proportion to the value of his property; but if we should wait, before collecting a tax, to adjust the taxes upon each man in exact proportion with every other man, we should never collect any tax at all.
Address to the 164th Ohio Regiment
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of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indicated.
Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
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.
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