A President with the ability that did all this would impart new energy to the public service, impressing it with his own faithful character, and assuring, on a larger scale, a corresponding success, so that the whole country would be…

Not to put faith in Horace Greeley is to act not only without evidence, but against evidence so manifest and constant in unbroken continuity as to seem like a law of Nature.

Therefore do I say, Be not deterred from voting for Horace Greeley because Democrats will also vote for him, but rather rejoice.

Their votes will be a new bond of peace, and a new assurance for the great principles declared by our fathers at our birth as a nation.

And has not the time arrived when in sincerity we should accept the olive-branch?

Is it not time for the pen to take the place of the sword?

Is it not time for the Executive Mansion to be changed from a barrack cesspool to a life-giving fountain?

Is it not time for a President who will show by example the importance of reform, and teach the duty of subordinating personal objects to the public service?

Is it not time for the Head of the National Government to represent the idea of peace and reconciliation, rather than of battle and strife?

Is it not time for that new era, when ancient enemies, forgetting the past, shall “clasp hands” in true unity with the principles of the Declaration of Independence as the supreme law?

Anxious for the Equal Rights of All, and knowing well that no text of Law or Constitution is adequate without a supporting sentiment behind, I cannot miss the opportunity afforded by the present election of obtaining this strength for our…

By military education and military genius he represents the idea of Force; nor is he any exception to the rule of his profession, which appreciates only slightly a government that is not arbitrary.

The time for the soldier has passed, especially when his renewed power would once more remind fellow-citizens of their defeat.

Victory over fellow-citizens should be known only in the rights it assures; nor should it be flaunted in the face of the vanquished.

But the present incumbent is a regimental color with the forbidden inscription; he is a picture at the National Capitol recalling victories over fellow-citizens.

Friendship does not grow where former differences are thrust into sight.

There are wounds of the mind as of the body; these, too, must be healed.

Instead of irritation and pressure, let there be gentleness and generosity.

Men in this world get only what they give,--prejudice for prejudice, animosity for animosity, hate for hate.

So will the Republic be elevated to new heights of moral grandeur, and our people will manifest that virtue, “greatest of all,” which is found in charity.

Above the conquest of others will be the conquest of ourselves.

Nor will any fellow-citizen suffer in rights, but all will find new safeguard in the comprehensive fellowship.

It is proper, therefore, for the representatives of the nation to suspend labor, that they too may be penetrated by the lesson of the day.

Duties are always for the living; and now, standing at the open grave of HORACE GREELEY, we are admonished to forget the strifes of party, and to remember only truth, country, and mankind, to which his honest life was devoted.

So, too, may we bury the animosities, if not the badges, of the past.