There Are Many Men Who Would Have

A Hero Does For Others. He Would Do Anything For People He Loves, Because He Knows It Would Make Their Lives Better. I Am Not That Kind Of Person, But I Want You To Be. You Could Give Something To Her, To Me, To Those Children In The Quarter. You Could Give Something I Never Could ... The White People Out There Are Saying You Don't Have It-that You're A Hog, Not A Man. But I Know They Are Wrong.

I Leave Comparisons To History, Claiming Only That I Have Acted In Every Instance From A Conscientious Desire To Do What Was Right, Constitutional, Within The Law, And For The Very Best Interests Of The Whole People. Failures Have Been Errors Of Judgment, Not Of Intent.

A Military Life Had No Charms For Me, And I Had Not The Faintest Idea Of Staying In The Army Even If I Should Be Graduated, Which I Did Not Expect.

The Cause Of The Great War Of The Rebellion Against The United Status Will Have To Be Attributed To Slavery.

I Felt Like Anything Rather Than Rejoicing At The Downfall Of A Foe Who Had Fought So Long And Valiantly, And Had Suffered So Much For A Cause, Though That Cause Was, I Believe, One Of The Worst For Which A People Ever Fought, And One For Which There Was The Least Excuse.