We stir the ambition of the living by rearing costly monuments to the heroic dead.

Its success thus far had demonstrated that under a perfected law it would soon become the general and popular banking system of the country.

Lincoln saw plainly that the Administration was not equal to the task of subduing two rebellions.

He made elaborate preparation by the study of all public questions, and spoke from a full mind with complete command of premise and conclusion.

He is the assassin of State rights, the usurper of liberty, and if nominated will be beaten everywhere, as he was at Antietam.

In the light of the answer flashed back from a score of battle-fields, the Chicago declaration that the war was a failure was not only seen to be unpatriotic and mischievous but was made contemptible by universal ridicule and obloquy.

Criticism of military skill is but idle chatter in the face of an unbroken career of victory.

No Power on earth dares to make war upon cotton.

No Cabinet minister in our history has been so intemperately denounced, so extravagantly eulogized.

He had only removed from the hospitality and shelter of a British ship four men who were bent on an errand of destruction to the American Union.

But selfish as is this market-policy, it is a policy of circumstance.

New days bring new issues and old passions are unsafe counselors.

They knew that the feeling of resentment among the Southern people must be kept at white-heat, and that whoever wished to speak a word of caution or moderation must be held as a public enemy, and subjected to the scorn and the vengeance of…

Georgia was really induced to secede, only upon the delusive suggestion that better terms could be made with the National Government by going out for a season than by remaining steadfastly loyal.

It is a striking tribute to the strength of the Constitution and of the Government that the orderly administration of affairs was not interrupted by a tragedy which in many countries might have been the signal for a bloody revolution.

The least reflecting among those who took part in the mighty struggle perceived that the duties devolved upon the Government by victory--if less exacting and less critical than those imposed by actual war--were more delicate in their…

The problem of reconstructing the Union, and adapting its varied interests to its changed condition, demanded the highest administrative ability.

In the division of functions between the Nation and the State, those that reach and affect the citizen in his every-day life belong principally to the State.

Though allied to the interests of slavery and necessarily drawn to its defense, his instincts, his prejudices, his convictions were singularly strong on the side of the free people.

His sympathies with the poor were acute and demonstrative--leading him to the advocacy of measures which in a wide and significant sense were hostile to slavery.

The duties have been mine, the consequences God's." Senator John P.

The record of your past life, familiar to all, your noble efforts to stay the hand of treason and restore our flag to the uttermost bounds of the Republic, give assurance to the great State we represent that we may safely trust the…

No one can say that if the perpetrator of this fiendish deed be arrested, he should not undergo the extremest penalty of the law known for crime; none will say that mercy should interpose.

The American people must be taught--if they do not already feel--that treason is a crime and must be punished.

The wonder excited by the raising of the vast army which saved the Union from destruction was even surpassed by the wonder excited by its prompt and peaceful dissolution.