by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.- -Letter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862, vol. VIII, p. 16.

DEVOTED TO PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD

With my consent, or without my great displeasure, this country shall never witness the shedding of one drop of blood in fraternal strife.- -Reply to Gov. Curtin, Feb. 22, 1861, vol. VI, p. 161.

SUGAR-COATED REBELLION

With rebellion thus sugar-coated, they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years.- -Message to Congress, July 4, 1861, vol. VI, p. 313.

NO CHICKENS FROM SMASHED EGGS

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only what it should be, as the egg to the fowl, we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.- -Last Public Address, Apr. II, 1865, vol. XI, p. 91.

THORN IN ANIMAL'S VITALS

This rebellion can only eke out a short and feeble existence, as an animal sometimes may with a thorn in its vitals. Letter to Gen. Halleck, Sept. 21, 1863, vol. IX, p. 132.

FOUL BIRD AND DIRTY REPTILE

Every foul bird comes abroad and every dirty reptile rises up.-Letter to Charles D. Drake and Others, Oct. 5, 1863, vol. IX, p. 157.

QUIET PAST AND STORMY PRESENT

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. -Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862, vol. VIII, p. 131.

NO MENDING FOR BROKEN EGGS

Broken eggs cannot be mended; but Louisiana has nothing to do now but to take her place in the Union as it was, barring the already broken eggs. -Letter to August Belmont, July 31, 1862, vol. VII, p. 299.

STOPPING ONE LEAK TO OPEN ANOTHER

Do we gain anything by opening one leak to stop another? Do we gain anything by quieting one clamor merely to open another, and probably a larger one?—Telegram to Col. A. K. McClure, June 30, 1863, vol. IX, p. 14.

POLITICIANS AND HONEST MEN

This work is exclusively the work of politicians; a set of men who have interests aside from the inter

ests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are. taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politician myself, none can regard it as personal.- -Bank Speech, Jan., 1837,

vol. I, p. 27.

PAYING THE FIDDLER GENEROUSLY

It is an old maxim and a very sound one that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. Now, sir, if any gentlemen, whose money is a burden to them, choose to lead off a dance, I am decidedly opposed to the people's money being used to pay the fiddler. -Speech before Illinois Legislature, Jan., 1837, vol. I, p. 23.

VULNERABLE HEELS MAKE FAST TIME

"The Democrats are vulnerable in the heel but they are sound in the head and the heart." The first branch of the figure-that is, that the Democrats are vulnerable in the heel-I admit is not merely figuratively, but literally true. It seems that this malady of their heels operates on these sound-minded and honest-hearted creatures very much like the cork leg in the comic song did on its owner: which, when he had once got started on it, the more he tried to stop it, the more it would run away. Speech on Sub-Treasury, Dec. 20, 1839, vol. I, p. 136.

NOT LAST, BUT NEVER TO DESERT

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her. Speech on Sub-treasury, Dec. 20, 1839, vol. I, p. 137.

PILOTING THE SHIP OF STATE

As a pilot I have used my best exertions to keep afloat our Ship of State, and shall be glad to resign my trust at the appointed time to another pilot more skillful and successful than I may prove.- -Reply to Presbyterian General Assembly, May 30, 1863, vol. VIII, p. 288.

SAVE THE COUNTRY FIRST

Let the friends of the government first save the government and then administer it to their own liking.- -Letter to Henry Winter Davis, Mar. 18, 1863, vol. VIII, p. 229.

'A NEW NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. -Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863, vol. IX, p. 209.

PUTTING THE FOOT DOWN FIRMLY

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am, but it may be necessary to put the foot down firmly. Address to New Jersey Assembly, Feb. 21, 1861, vol. VI, p. 154.

PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATISM

I am very glad the elections this autumn have gone favorably, and that I have not, by native depravity or under evil influences, done anything bad enough to prevent the good result. I hope to "stand firm" enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. -Letter to Zachariah Chandler, Nov. 20, 1863, vol. IX, p. 213.

DEVOTION TO THE UNION

I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by. -Address in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1861, vol. VI, p. 156.

SELF-GOVERNMENT AND DESPOTISM

When the white man governs himself, that is selfgovernment; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government that is despotism.- -Speech at Peoria, Ill., Oct. 16, 1854, vol. II, p. 227.