The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.

That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.

Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.