Political Quotes

I will only notice one more statement in your letter of the 3d instant—that the performance of the promises which it is alleged were made by you would have involved you in the resistance of law.

You say that a performance of the promises alleged to have been made by you to the President 'would have involved a resistance to law and an inconsistency with the whole history of my connection with the suspension of Mr. Stanton.'

It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.

You speak of my letter of the 31st ultimo as a reiteration of the 'many and gross misrepresentations' contained in certain newspaper articles.