whenever it shall have ceased upon the part of those who began it

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HE true rule in determining to embrace or reject anything, is not whether it have any evil in it, but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

¶ I am always for the man who wishes to work.

The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds.

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HE legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not do so well, for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branches off into an infinite variety of subdivisions e

¶The first-that in relation to wrongs-embraces all crimes, misdemeanors and non-performance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without

wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself

¶ From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

¶ Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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TAKE it that it is best for all to leave each man free

to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else. When one starts poor, as most do in the race of life, free society is such that he knows he can better his condition; he knows that there is no fixed condition of labor for his whole life. I am not ashamed to confess that twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flatboat-just like what might happen to any poor man's son. I want every man to have a chance-and I believe a black man is entitled to it-in which he can better his condition-when he may look forward and hope to be a hired laborer this year and the next, work for himself afterward, and finally to hire men to work for him. That is the true system DO

¶No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

O other occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with

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cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know nothing so pleasant to the mind as the discovery of anything that is at once new and valuable-nothing that so lightens and sweetens toil as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery And how vast and varied a field is agriculture for such discovery! The mind, already trained to thought in the country school, or higher school, can not fail to find there an exhaustless source of enjoyment. Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two where there was but one is both a profit and a pleasure. And not grass alone, but soil, seeds and seasons-hedges, ditches and fencesdraining, droughts and irrigation-plowing, hoeing and harrowing-reaping, mowing and threshing-saving crops, pests of crops, diseases of crops, and what will prevent or cure them-implements, utensils and machines, their relative merits and how to improve them-hogs, horses and cattle-sheep, goats and poultry-trees, shrubs, fruits, plants and flowers-the thousand things of which these are specimens each a world of study within itself.

¶ I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other man's rights ›☛

¶ It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, " And this, too, shall pass away."

NASMUCH NASMUCH as most good things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has so happened, in all ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have without labor enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong and should not continue. To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor as nearly as possible, is a worthy subject of any good government.

¶ Consciences differ in different individuals.

¶ Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

¶In this age and in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it nothing can fail; against it nothing can succeed

¶ The plainest print can not be read through a gold eagle.

¶ All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy

¶ Unless among those deficient in intellect, everybody you trade with makes something.

¶ If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

¶ The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

I say "try;" if we never try, we shall never succeed.

¶ There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

¶ Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold

¶ Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbor to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

¶ The race gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone ☛☛