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One Point In My Public Life: I Did All I Could For The Reform Of The Civil Service, For The Building Up Of The South, For A Soundcurrency, Etc., Etc., But I Never Forgot My Party.... I Knew That All Good Measures Would Suffer If My Administration Was Followed By The Defeat Of My Party. Result, A Great Victory In 1880. Executive And Legislature Both Completely Republican.

No Capitalists After Any War Were Ever So Well Paid For Money Loaned To The Nation That Carried It On. No Class Of Money-makers Ever Gained Such Prosperity By Any Other War, As Our War For The Union Brought To The Money-getters Of America. All This Was Due In Great Measure To The Rank And File Of The Union Army. Now Let No Rich Man Haggle With A Needy Veteran Of That War About His Right To A Pension!

For Character, To Prepare For The Inevitable I Recommend Selections From [ralph Waldo] Emerson. His Writings Have Done For Me Far More Than All Other Reading.

The Man Of Large And Conspicuous Public Service In Civil Life Must Be Content Without The Presidency. Still More, The Availability Of A Popular Man In A Doubtful State Will Secure Him The Prize In A Close Contest Against The First Statesman Of The Country Whose State Is Safe.

The Study Of Tools As Well As Of Books Should Have A Place In The Public Schools. Tools, Machinery, And The Implements Of The Farmshould Be Made Familiar To Every Boy, And Suitable Industrial Education Should Be Furnished For Every Girl.