By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.

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 pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

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.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.