The party which elected Lincoln in 1860 polled only seven thousand votes in 1840.

Revolutions never go backward, and the fanaticisms of to-day are the victories of to-morrow." "O sir, we are beaten," exclaimed the general in command of Sheridan's army, retreating before the victorious Early.

"No, sir," replied the indignant Sheridan; "you are beaten, but this army is not beaten." Drawing his sword, he waved it above his head, and pointed it at the pursuing host, while his clarion voice rose above the horrid din in a command to charge once more.

The lines paused, turned,-- "And with the ocean's mighty swing, When heaving to the tempest's wing, They hurled them on the foe;" and the Confederate army was wildly routed.
When war with France seemed imminent, in 1798, President Adams wrote to George Washington, then a private citizen in retirement at Mount Vernon: "We must have your name, if you will permit us to use it; there will be more efficacy in it than in many an army." Character is power.
When Pope Paul IV.

heard of the death of Calvin he exclaimed with a sigh, "Ah, the strength of that proud heretic lay in--riches?
No! Honors?
No! But nothing could move him from his course.