tainly not those who sympathize with me, but I must say I need success more than I need sympathy. SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE, DEC. 1, 1862. "Our struggle has been, of course, contemplated by foreign nations with reference less to its own merits than to its supposed and often exaggerated effects and consequences resulting to those nations. themselves. Nevertheless, complaint on the part of this government, even if it were just, would certainly be unwise." SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, DEC. 1, 1862. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then shall we save our country." TO A WOMAN PREACHER OF THE SOCIETY OF PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS, WHO DELIVERED HER AUTHORITATIVE "TESTIMONY," COMMANDING HIM, IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, TO ABOLISH SLAVERY AND ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS, 1862. "I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that He would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her." UNIV. OF LETTER TO GEN. JOSEPH HOOKER, "And now, beware of rashness,beware of rashness!-but, with energy and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories!” LETTER TO THE WORKINGMEN of "A fair examination of history has seemed to authorize a belief that the past action and influence of the United States were generally regarded as having been beneficial toward mankind. I have therefore reckoned on the forbearance of nations." OPINION OF THE DRAFT ACT, 1863. "The principle of the draft, which simply is involuntary or enforced service, is not new. It has been practised in all ages of the world. It was well known to the framers of our Constitution as one of the modes of raising armies, at the time they placed in that instrument the provision that the Congress shall have power to raise, and support armies.' It had been used just before, in establishing our independence, and it was also used, under the Constitution, in 1812. Wherein is the peculiar hardship now? Shall we shrink from the necessary means to maintain our free government, which our grandfathers employed to establish it and our fathers have already employed! once to maintain it? Are we degenerate? Has the manhood of our race run out?" LETTER TO GENERAL HOOKER, JUNE 5, 1863. "In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other." TELEGRAM TO GENERAL HOOKER, JUNE 14, 1863. "If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animust be slim somewhere. mal Could you not break him?" IN RESPONSE TO A SERENADE, JULY, 1863. "I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the Union and liberties of their country, from |