Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.

I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay.

As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.

I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.

For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.

I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.