"I am glad to hear that my old acquaintance Colonel Ward is yet under the influence of vigorous passions. I will not ascribe the intrepidity of his late enterprise to a mere flash of desires, because i…"

"I shall only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed my mite to the establishment of a Government which I trust will prove a blessing to our Country."

"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."

"My dear Gov. Lee: You have exchanged the rugged field of Mars for the soft and pleasurable bed of Venus."

"The foundations of our empire were not laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and superstition; but at an epocha when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any fo…"