Political Quotes

It is my duty at all times to defend and protect the public property within the seceding States so far as this may be practicable.

The safety of the immense amount of public property in this city and that of the archives of the Government, in which all the States, and especially the new States in which the public lands are situated, have a deep interest.

It does not appear to me to be competent for commissioners authorized to ascertain the indemnity for the injury to go behind their authority and decide upon the original merits of the claim for which the war was made.

I feel quite confident that Congress will bestow upon these resolutions the careful consideration to which they are eminently entitled.