Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.