Political Quotes

My prayer to God is that He would preserve the Constitution and the Union throughout all generations.

He was, however, induced by the interposition of Hon. Jefferson Davis and nine other Senators from the seceded and seceding States not to deliver it on the day appointed.

It is manifest that if the power which this law gives had been withheld the public interest would frequently suffer very serious detriment.

In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit the objectionable second article and also the few words of the twenty-eighth article which had been stricken out by the Senate.