The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.