Henry Watterson: “He clearly understood that the Irrepressible Conflict was a Conflict of systems, not a merely sectional and partisan…”

With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.

It is love—love through grace of God—truth where we can find it—which shall irradiate the life that is.

But my face in the glass I’ll serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow— That this worn-out old stuff which is thread-bare to-day Shall become everlasting to-morrow.

From fakers who have cards up their sleeves, not to mention snakes in their boots, we hear a great deal about “the people,” pronounced by them as if it were spelled “pee-pul.” It is the unfailing recourse of the professional politician in…