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• ‟ I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.

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• ‟ The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

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• ‟ I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.

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• ‟ My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

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• ‟ I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

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