But, if he wins, and lets Lee get away, I’m done with him. Bull Run⁠—the Seven Days⁠— Bull Run again⁠—and eighteen months of war⁠— And still no end to it. What is God’s will?

They come to me and talk about God’s will In righteous deputations and platoons, Day after day, laymen and ministers. They write me Prayers From Twenty Million Souls Defining me God’s will and Horace Greeley’s. God’s will is General This and Senator That, God’s will is those poor colored fellows’ will, It is the will of the Chicago churches, It is this man’s and his worst enemy’s. But all of them are sure they know God’s will. I am the only man who does not know it.