Political Quotes

The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character of the road, manifestly impossible to forward them overland without involving an expenditure which no wise…

My province is to execute and not to make the laws.

I therefore appeal through you to the people of the country to declare in their might that the Union must and shall be preserved by all constitutional means.

If they could withdraw an officer from the command of the President and select him for the performance of an executive duty, they might upon the same principle annex to an appropriation to carry on a war a condition requiring it not to be…