His motto is 'Never say die.' His manifest destiny is to go on--prospering and to prosper--conquering and to conquer." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1197: Dodd, _Jefferson Davis_, p.

233.] [Footnote 1198: See _ante_, p.

192.] [Footnote 1199: Mason Papers.

Spence to Mason, Jan.

22, 1864.] [Footnote 1200: _The Index_, Feb.