I want to say to them as Moses said to Korah, Dathan, and Abiram--'Ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi!'" Lincoln's speech had broadened into something like the dialect of his boyhood.

Stanton finished the paper on which he had been engaged and stepped aside from his desk.

His face was heavily preoccupied and he kept an eye always on the door leading to his private secretary's room.
"At this moment," he said, "Hooker is engaged with Lee." He put a finger on a map which was stretched on a frame behind him.

"There! On the Rappahannock, where it is joined by the Rapidan....

Near the hamlet of Chancellorsville....