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Good words From a Man Of Good Works,

With due regard to all local interests.
we should seek that general legisla-
ton which touches with kindly fingers
the humblest homes in our land.
Art, music, poetry and song should not
be separated from the homes of the poor.
To every one of you l wish the most
abundant success; that every home rep
resented here may be a typical American
home in which morality, purity and love
sit as the crowning virtues and are house
hold gods.
As long as we have pure homes and
God-feariDg, order-loving fathers and
mothers to rear the children that are
given to them, and to make these homes
the abodes Of order, cleanliness, piety
and intelligence, the American society
and the American Union are safe.
l would to God it was always and
everywhere so that when a man is nut at
machine he should not be regarded by
his employer as part of it; that the hu-
man nature, the aspirations of a man.
should still be recognized, and the rela-
tions with the employer be that of mutual
confidence and helpfulness and respect.
Let 1t never be forgotten anywhere that
commerce builds upon social order.
1t is known to you all that our 6, 900, COO
people furnish per capita a larger market
than any other like number of people.
This grows out of the fact that our ca
found in those countries where poverty
holds larger sway. The workingman
buys more, has more to buy with in
America than in any other land in the
world.
The home is the best as it is the first
school of good citizenship.
| am q thorough believer in the Ameri
can test of character. The rule must be
applied to a mans own life, when his
stature IS taken. He will not build high
who does not build for himself.
The American home is the one thing
we cannot afford to lose out of the Aneri-
can life.
The law and the Constitution as the OBJ
Jects of every American citizens venera-
ton, and his willing obedience, is the
one faith and the only safety of our peo-
pie. No cause can be advanced in this
country upon the lines of lawlessness.
Intelligence and morality among our
people. the church, the school and the
home, these great rocks upon which our
institutions and our safety rest, we viii
cherish and preserve.
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RecinrOcff.v.
I TGalveston, Tex, April Is 1so1 /

Ii
The Inauguration of the three A meri-
cas- Congress, or more properly the
American Conference, the happy conduct
Of that meeting, the wise and compre-
henSlVe measures which were manifested
by it, with the fraternal and kindly spirit
that was manifested by our southern
neighbOrs, has stimulated a desire in
them and in our people for a larger inter-
course of commerce and of friendship.
The provisions OF the bill passed at the
last session looking to reciprocity of trade
not only met with my oi1Icial approval
when l signed the bill, but with nv
Jealous promotion before the bill was re-
ported.
Its provision concerning reciprocity is
that we have placed upon our free list
sugar, tea, coffee and hides, and have
said to those nations from whom we re-
celve these great staples: Give us free
access TO your ports for an equivalent
amount OF our produce in exchange, or
we will reimpose duties upon the articles
named.
The record-union., 1892-10-19
The Suffrage of Equal yaIue.

Message to Congress, December 8, 1871
An election implies body of electors
having prescribed qualifications, each
one OF whom has an equal value and in
huence in determining the result. So
when the Constitution provides that
leach State shall appoint eleatl, in such
manner as the Legislature thereof NAV
direct, number of electors" etc.. an un-
restricted power was not given the Legis-
latures in the selection of the methods to
be used. "a republican form of govern
ment'' is guaranteed by the Constitution
to each State, and the power given by the
same instrument to the Legislatures of
the States to prescribe methods for the
choice, by the State, Of electors must be
exercised under that limitation. The es-
sential features OF such Government are
the right of the people to choose their
own officers and the nearest practicable
equality of value in the suffrages given
in determining that choice.
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The German Citizens Home.

LIndlanapoIis, Ind October IS, 1851
My German-American friends. you are
a home-loving people; father, mother.
wife, child are words that to you have a
very full and very tender meaning.
The old father and mother never outIive
the veneratiOn and love of the children in
a German household. You have come
from the Fatherland in families. and have
set up again here the old hearthstones,
Out of this love of home there is natu-
rally born love of country-it is only
the widening OF the family circle-and so
our fellow-citizens OF German birth and
descent did not fail to respond with alac-
rity and enthusiasm to the call of their
adopted country when armies were mus
tered for the defense of the Union.
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Electoral Crimes Must be Eradicated,
Message to Congress, Dec. 8. 1911


An attempt was made in the last Con-
gress to bring to bear the constitutional
powers of the General Governments for
the correction of frauds against the suf-
frage. 1t is important to know whether
the opposition to such measure is really
vested in particular features supposed to
be Objectionable or includes any PROPOSE
ton to give to the election laws of the
United States adequacy to the correction
of grave and acknowledged evils. l must
yet entertain the hope that it is possible
to secare a calm, patriotic consideration
OF such constitutional or statutory
changes as may be necessary to secure
the choice of the officers OF the Govern
ment to the people by fair rapportionments
and free elections. I believe it would be
possible to secure commission, nom
partisan in its membership and COM
posed of patriotic, wise and impartial
men, to whom a consideration OF the
question of the evils connected with our
election system and methods might be
committed, with good prospect of Sc
curing unanimity in some plan for re-
moving or mitigating those evils. The
Constitution would permit the selection
of the commission TO be vested in the
Supreme Court, if that method would
give the best guaranty of impartiaIity.
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part IN the great transactions of the
world. believe our people are prepared
now to insist that the American flag shall
be seen upon the sea, and that our mer-
chants and manufacturers are ready to
seize the golden opportunity that is now
offered for extending our commerce into
the States of Central and South America.
l believe that conservative views of
finance will prevail in this country. l
am sure discomfort and temporary DIS
tress will not tempt our people toforsake
those safe lines Of public administration
In Which commercial security alone rests
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Where on the Sea is the Starry Ban
ner

IReception at Omaha, Neb., May IS, 1891 1
a few days ago, sailing in the harbor of
San Francisco, saw three great deep
water ships enter the Golden Gate. One
carried the flag of Hawaii, and two the
British flag, and at Portland they took
the pains to tow up from the lower har-
Dor and to deck in bunting an American
ship that was lying in the harbor. 1t was
curious sight-one they thought i'm
pOrtant to exhibit to strangers visiting
that city. Why, my countrymen. [ hope
the day is not far distant when the sight
of great American ships flying the stars
not only in our own ports, but in every
busy mart of commerce the world
around.
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Parties and the CoIored Race.
Indianapolis, July 25, 1851


/ greet you as Republicans to-day. I
recall the time when you Were disfran-
chlsed; when your race were slaves;
when the doors of our institutions of
learning We're closed against you, and
even admittance to many of our North
ern States was denied you. You have
read the story OF your disfranchisement,
OF ihe restoration to you OF the common
story OF the bitter and bigoted opposition
THAT every statute and constitutional
amendment framed for your benefit en-
countered. What party defended you
when you needed friends? What party
mas stood always as an obstruction TO
the development and enlargement of
your rights as citizens? When you have
able 10 determine not only where your
gratitude IS due, but where the hopes of
your race lie.
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we should Cease to be Careless.


Our naturalization laws should be SO
amended as to make the inquiry into the
character and good disposition of per
sons applying for citizenship more careful
and searching. Our existing laws have
been in their administration an unim-
pressive and often unintelligible form.
We accept the man as a citizen without
any knowledge Of his fitness, and he
assumes the duties Of citizenship without
any knowledge as to what they are. The
privileges of American citizenship are so
great and its duties SO grave that we may
well insist upon good knowledge of
every person applying for citizenship and
a good knowledge by him of our institu-
tions We should not cease to be hos
pitable to immigration, but we should
cease to be careless as to the character of
it. There are men Of all races, even the
best, whose coming is necessarily a bur-
den upon our public revenues or a threat
to social order. These should be identi-
fed and excluded.
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Pay Tribute First to Ourselves.

And take great delight in the contem-
plation OF the fact, which believe is now
assured, that before another year has
rolled around one of the swiftest and
best OF all the great lines of steamships
that go out of the port of New York will
bear the American flag at the fore. and
the tribute we have paid to foreign ma
tions in the way of freight charges be-
Ileve will speedily, in large measure, be
abrogated forever. These great stores of
agricultural products which we pour out
from our granarfes to feed the nations
of Europe, should, and believe speedily
Will, be delivered at the port OF Liver
pool in American bottoms.
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Human Life Must Not be Jeopardized,

I-II07-I750 10 OOIIsItss' FGUTUdIy II, Io5G.I
There was passed by the last Congress
'An Act for the protection of the lives of
the miners in the Territories" which
was approved by me on the Sd day of
March, 1891. That no appropriation was
made TO enable me TO carry the Act
into effect resulted. suppose, from the
fact that it was passed so late in the ses-
sion. This law recognizes the necessity
supervision of the business of mining in
the interest OF the miners, and is in line
with the legislation of most of the States.
The work OF the miner has its unavoid-
able incidents of discomfort and danger,
and these should not be increased by the
neglect Of the owners to provide every
practicable safety appliance. Economies
which involve sacrifice of human life
are intolerable.
The record-union., 1892-10-19
Things MAY be Too Cheap.
( Chicago, March 20, 1851

l am one of those uninstructed politi-
cal economists that have an impression
that some things may be too cheap: but
cannot find myselfin full sympathy with
this demand for cheap coats, which seems
to me necessarily to involve a cheaper
man and woman under the coat.
l believe it is true to-day that we have
many things in this 1ntry that are too
cheap, because WI ~ it is proved
that the man or 10 produces
any article cannot 50 wing out
of it then it is too cheap.
The record-union., 1892-10-19
Reciprocity is Now a Fact.

I0VI9J
Secure in the great American market
ior our manufactures market the best
per capita of any in the world-we hav
come now to believe that we may we'll
extend our trade and send our manu-
factured products to other countries
across the seas and in ships carrying the
American flag. We do not need in any
degree to break down or injure our own
domestic industries. We are consum-
ing, to an enormous extent, of tropical
products not produced by our people,
and by a fair exchange with the nations
sending us sugar, tea and coffee, we pro-
pose and have entered successfully upon
the enterprise of opening the markets of
Central and South America to the manu-
featuring establishments ofNew England
and the United States.
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At Resaca.
Reception to Seventieth Indiana Volunteers
indianapolis, June 26, 1851

Reception to Seventieth Indiana Volunteers.
indianapolis, June 26, 1855
I remember the scenes of battle in
which we stood together. l remember
especially that broad and deep grave at
the foot of the Resaca hill where we left
those gallant comrades who fell in that
desperate charge. l remember, through
it all, the gallantry, devotion and stead
fastness, the high-set patriotism you al
ways exhibited. l remember how, after
sweeping down with Sherman from Chat
tanooga to the sea and up again through
the Caroinas and Virginia, you, with
those gallant armies that had entered the
gate of the South by Louisville and
Vicksburg, marched in the great review
up the grand avenue Of our Nations
CAPITAL.
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Our own shops for our own Trade

IseaIIIe, " ASH, May 6, 1851.
We shall need something more. We
shall need American steamships to carry
American goods to these ports. The last
Congress passed bill appropriatinp
about IL 100000 and authorized the POST
mater-General to contract with steamship
companies for period not exceeding ten
years for the carrying of the United States
mail. The foreign mail service is the
only mail service out OF which the Gov
ernment has been making q net profit.
We do not make a profit out of our land
service.
The record-union., 1892-10-19
Honesty in the Public se,.vfce.

Annual Message to Congress, Dee. /, 1901
The vast and increasing business of the
government has been transacted by the
several departments during the year with
falthtulness, energy and success. The
revenues, amounting to above $3.50, ,OOO. .O0O.
have been collected and disbursed. with
out revealing, so far as can ascertain, a
single case of defalcation or embezzle-
ment. The closest scrutiny of Congress
Is invited to all the methods of admiuis-
tration and to every item of expenditure.
The record-union., 1892-10-19
The West Not jealous of the East.

indianapolis, October 4, 1851
We are not jealous of the prosperity of
New England we rejoice in it. We be-
lieve that the protective policy developed
her great manufacturing institutions and
made her rich, and we do not doubt that
a continuance of that policy viii produce
the same results in Michigan, Ohio and
Indiana. We are not content to remain
wholly agricultural States in our rela-
tions either to New England or Old Eng
land. We believe that in all these great
Western States there are minerals in the
soil, and energy and skill in the brains
and arms of our people that will yet so
multiply and develop our manufacturing
industries as to give us a nearer home
market for much of the produce of our
soil. And for that great surplus which
now and always, perhaps, we shall not
consume at home we think New Eng
land market better than foreign market.
The record-union., 1892-10-19
Welded in the Battles Flame.

Public Reception, indianapolis, June 3oth.l
am very certain that there is no class
whose confidence and respect | more
highly prize or more earnestly covet than
that Of the soldiers who, in the great war
from 1862 to 1865, upheld the loved banner
of our country and brought it home in
honor. The comradeship of the war will
never end until our lives end. The fires
in which our friendship was riveted and
welded were too hot for the bond ever to
be broken. We sympathize with each
other in the glory Of the common cause
for which we fought.
The record-union., 1892-10-19
Ready Now to Build Great Vessels.
Malone, Aug. 90. 1891

From causes as to which we differ we
have come to a condition recognized bv
all We have been deprived of our once
proud participation in the ocean-carry-
ing trade Of the world. think we should
now resume it. The wise and timely
inauguration of a new navy has dem
onstrated the capacity OF our American
shlpyards to produce the best ships in the
world: The Government having pio-
neered i'll this work of shipbuildin6 Inv
the encouragement it has given to our
constructors and our artisans, has paved
the way now for building great ships Of
commerce,
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Give Them Good Tools to Work With.
Inaugural Address,

The construction OF a sufficient num-
Der of modern war ships and of their
necessary armament should progress as
rapidly as is consistent with care and
perfection in plans and workmanship.
The spirit, courage and skill Of our
naval officers and seamen have manv
times in our history given to
weak ships and inefficient guns q
rating greatly beyond that Of the naval
list. That they Will again do so upon oc-
casion l do not doubt; but they ought
not, by premeditation or neglect, be left
to the risks and exigencies OF an unequal
combat,
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Consult Our Own Country.

The British Parliament does not Iegis-
late with a view to advance the interests
OF the people of the United States.
They-rightly- in view the inter-
ests of that Empire over which Victoria
reigns. Should we not also, as Ameri-
cans, in our legislation, consider first the
interests of our people2
The record-union., 1892-10-19
Each Dollar Must Be n Full Dollar.
Letter to Commercial Congress, Kansas CITY.
April l (, 1911

believe that every person who
thopghtfully considers the question will
agree with me upon proposition which
is at the base of all my consideration of
the currency question, namely, that any
dollar, paper or coin, that is issued by
the United States must be made and kept
IN its commercial uses as good as any
other dollar. So long as any paper money
issued or authorized by the United States
Government is accepted in commercial
use as the equivalent of the best coined
dollar that we issue, and so long as every
coined dollar, whether of silver or gold.
IS assured of an equivalent value in COM
mercial use, there need be no fear as to
an excess OF money.
The record-union., 1892-10-19

from slavery, had found freedom in our
camp. After day OF hard work, when
taps had sounded and the lights in the
tents were out, have seen him with a
spelling book that the chaplain had given
him, lying prone upon the ground taxing
his old eyes and pointing with his har-
dened finger to the letters of the alphabet,
as he endeavored to open to his clouded
irrht
The record-union., 1892-10-19
Good soldiers in Both Parties.

indianapolis, Ind, July 24,18S6.I
We do not limit our praise Of the
loyalty and faithfulness of your soldiers to
any party lines, for we realize that there
were good soldiers who did resume their
ante-war politics when they came back
from the army. To such extend a com
rade's hand always, and the free and un-
trammeled exercise of his political choice
shall not bar our comradeship.
The record-union., 1892-10-19
The Law Reigns over an.
IGalesburg, H., October s, 1881

IGaIesburg, III, October 5, 1851
Let us divide upon tariff and finance
but let there never be a division among
the American people upon this question,
that nowhere shall the law be overturned
in the interest OF anybody. If it fails Of
benehcent purpose, which should be the
object of all law. then let us modify it,
but while it is law let us insist that it
shall he Obave1
The record-union., 1892-10-19
Unity Of Heart and Interest.
rAnniston, Ala, April 16th.I

You are realizing the benefits of home
markets for what you produce, and L am
sure you will unite with me in those ef-
forts which we ought to make, not only
to fill our own markets with all that this
great nation of $4,000. 900 needs, but to
reach out to other markets and enter into
competition with the world for them.
This we shall do, and with all this me-
chanical and commercial development,
we shall realize largely that condition Of
unification of heart and interest to which
those who have spoken for you have so
eloquentIy alluded.
The record-union., 1892-10-19
Ready to stand by Our Uniforms.
TChilean Message.1

We regret every civil contest that dis
turbs their peace and paralyzes their de-
velopment, and are always ready to give
our good offices for the restoration of
peace. It must, however, be understood
that this Government, while exercising
the utmost fOrbearance toward weaker
powers, will extend its strong and ade-
quate protection to its citizens, to its Off
GERS, and to its humblest sailors when
made the victims of wantonness and
cruelty in resentment, not of their per-
sonal misconduct, but Of the official acts
of their Government.
The record-union., 1892-10-19

cheap worker over the sea if the product
OF his cheap labor is allowed free compe-
ttion in our market. We should protect
our people against competition with the
products OF underpaid labor abroad as
well as against the coming to our shores
Of paupers, laborers under contract and
the Chinese labor.
The record-union., 1892-10-19
Let Us Keep the Ballot Pure.
ILathrop, Cal, April 25, 1se1.I

cannot look forward with any human
apprehension to any danger to our coun-
try unless it approaches US through a
corrupt ballot-boX. Let us keep that
spring pure, and these happy valleys
shall TEEN with an increasing population
OF happy citizens, and our country shall
find in an increasing population only in
creased unity and strength.
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The Law Must be Supreme.
LKnoxvlIle. Tenn.. Aprll 14th.l

LAAhp-N fAAANs ASltAA-s t'AiA 11tAA-
We live in d Government of law. The
compact of our organization is that a ma
jority of our people. taking those meth
DDS which are prescribed by the Constitu-
ton and law, shall determine our public
politics and choose our rulers. 1t is our
solemn compact; il cannot safely be
broken. We may safely differ about poll
ties; we may safely divide upon the ques-
ton as to what shall be the law; but when
the law is once enacted, no community
can safely divide on the question of i'm
plicit obedience to the law.
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The Gates of Castle Garden.
rIn6iannnnlis I11lr oG l go

Some resort to statistics to show that
the condition Of the American workman
is better than that of the workman of
any other country. l do not care now to
deal with statistics. One fact is enough
for me. The tide of emigration from all
European countries has been and is to-
ward our shores. The gates of Castle
Garden swing inward. They do not
swing outward to any American laborer
seeking better country than this.
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The Law Must Be Enforced.
[Inaugurnl Address.

Heads OF departments, bureaus and
other public officers having any duty con-
nected Herewith, will be expected to en-
force the civil service law fully and with
out evasion. Beyond this obvious duty
hope to do something more to advance
the reform.
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The Governments Duty to Restore
Shipping.
Portland, Or, May 5, 1851 |

l am in entire sympathy with the sug-
gestion of the Mayor that it is important
that this commerce should be carried in
American ships. A few days ago, when
| sailed III the harbor OF San Francisco,
! saw three great deep-water ships come
into that port. one carried the flag of
Hawaii, and two the English flag. None
pore at the masthead the stars and
stripes. / believe it is the duty of the
national Government to take such stems
as will restore the American merchant
marine. -
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rho RenphlIcan Party Creates Homes.

fIndianapoIis, md, August II, 1851
take more pride in the fact that the
Republican party has always been the
friend and protector of the American
home than in aught else. by the beneh-
cent homestead law it created more than
half a million homes; by the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation it converted million
cattle pens into homes. And it is still
true to those principles that will preserve
contentment and prosperity in our homes.
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1t is a Much Needed Reform.

ILeII5f OF acceptance, sept. II, 1888.
The law regulating appointments to
the classified civil service received my
support in the Senate in the belief that it
opened the way to much needed reform
L still think so, and, therefore, cordially
approve the clear and forcible ex preston