He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

I have tried so hard to do the right.

I have a Congress on my hands.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.