If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.

My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.

I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper.

Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes--castes--is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enlistment, and discharges me cured.

My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.