1: “It is good to show the rebels that with us they will be free to hear it again.”
2: “I have always thought ‘Dixie’ one of the best tunes I have ever heard. Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it.”
3: “We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace”—and promised a day of “national thanksgiving”
“folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds to be.” “whatever you are, be a good one.” “do i not destroy my enemies when i make them my friends?” “america will never be destroyed from the outside” “my best friend is a person who will give me a book i have not read.”
