Every Expert Was Once A Beginner.

Disunion And Civil War Are At Hand; And Yet I Fear Disunion And War Less Than Compromise. We Can Recover From Them. The Free States Alone, If We Must Go On Alone, Will Make A Glorious Nation. Twenty Millions In The Temperate Zone, Stretching From The Atlantic To The Pacific, Full Of Vigor, Industry, Inventive Genius, Educated, And Moral; Increasing By Immigration Rapidly, And, Above All, Free--all Free--will Form A Confederacy Of Twenty States Scarcely Inferior In Real Power To The Unfortunate Union Of Thirty-three States Which We Had On The First Of November.

The Best Hopes Of Any Community Rest Upon That Class Of Its Gifted Young Men Who Are Not Encumbered With Large Possessions.... I Now Speak Of Extensive Scholarship And Ripe Culture In Science And Art.... It Is Not Large Possessions, It Is Large Expectations, Or Rather Large Hopes, That Stimulate The Ambition Of The Young.

I Would Strenuously Urge A Single Term Of Six Years.

No Political Party Can Ever Make Prohibition Effective. A Political Party Implies An Adverse, An Opposing, Political Party. To Enforce Criminal Statutes Implies Substantial Unanimity In The Community. This Is The Result Of The Jury System. Hence The Futility Of Party Prohibition.

It Could Be Clearly Proved That By A Practical Nullification [by The South] Of The Fifteenth Amendment The Republicans Have For Several Years Been Deprived Of A Majority In Both The House And Senate. The Failure Of The South To Faithfully Observe The Fifteenth Amendment Is The Cause Of The Failure Of All Efforts Towards Complete Pacification. It Is On This Hook That The Bloody Shirt Now Hangs.