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There Is A True Glory And A True Honor: The Glory Of Duty Done--the Honor Of The Integrity Of Principle.

I Have Been Up To See The Congress And They Do Not Seem To Be Able To Do Anything Except To Eat Peanuts And Chew Tobacco, While My Army Is Starving.

My Experiences Of Men Has Neither Disposed Me To Think Worse Of Them Nor Be Indisposed To Serve Them: Nor, In Spite Of Failures Which I Lament, Of Errors Which I Now See And Acknowledge, Or The Present Aspect Of Affairs, Do I Despair Of The Future. The Truth Is This: The March Of Providence Is So Slow And Our Desires So Impatient; The Work Of Progress So Immense And Our Means Of Aiding It So Feeble; The Life Of Humanity Is So Long, That Of The Individual So Brief, That We Often See Only The Ebb Of The Advancing Wave And Are Thus Discouraged. It Is History That Teaches Us To Hope.

We Must Look To The Rising Generation For The Restoration Of The Country.

Ideas Are Easy To Conceive, Less Easy To Execute.