Why not go now, when all the arrangements are completed for the transfer,--instead of waiting till the plunging shot of contending armies will renew the scenes of the past months.

Of course, I do not apprehend any such thing at this moment, but you do not suppose this army will be here until the war is over.

I cannot discuss this subject with you fairly, because I cannot impart to you what we propose to do, but I assert that our military plans make it necessary for the inhabitants to go away, and I can only renew my offer of services to make their exodus in any direction as easy and comfortable as possible.
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
But you cannot have peace and a division of our country.