While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.