On the President being urged to answer some virulent newspaper assault,
his reply was:
"Oh, no; if I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks
made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business, I
do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep
doing so, until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is
said against me won't amount to anything; if the end brings me out
wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."
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