'Loyal men can congratulate themselves not only on this clearness of issue between war and peace, but upon the development of the fact that this issue is indeed no other than Union or Disunion.' 'Things will go on very much as they have hitherto-except that we shall have honesty and manliness instead of meanness and corruption in the Executive departments, and a decent regard for the opinions of mankind in the tone and talk of the Government on the subject of Slavery.'
