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Tortured For The Republic.

My God! What Is There In This Place That A Man Should Ever Want To Get Into It?

In My Judgment It Is The Duty Of Congress, While Respecting To The Uttermost The Conscientious Convictions And Religious Scruples Of Every Citizen, To Prohibit Within Its Jurisdiction All Criminal Practices ... Nor Can Any Ecclesiastical Organization Be Safely Permitted To Usurp In The Smallest Degree The Functions And Powers Of The National Government.

For Honest Merit To Succeed Amid The Tricks And Intrigues Which Are Now So Lamentably Common, I Know Is Difficult; But The Honor Of Success Is Increased By The Obstacles Which Are To Be Surmounted. Let Me Triumph As A Man Or Not At All.

Statistics Has Been The Handmaid Of Science, And Has Poured A Flood Of Light Upon The Dark Questions Of Famine And Pestilence, Ignorance And Crime, Disease And Death.