Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers.

The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.

Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.