This fact furnishes a pretext for efforts to make money while in the public service.

But I am more anxious to deal justly by them because they are men.

And when it is remembered, that, for months and almost for years after the opening of the rebellion, we refused to accept the services of colored persons in the armies of the country, it is with ill grace that we now decline to allow the…

I hope it is not necessary in this day and this hour of the Republic to argue anywhere that a property qualification is not only unjust in itself, but that it is odious to the people of the country to a degree which cannot be expressed.

Does anybody contemplate such a qualification to the elective franchise, in the case of black people or white?

That is the lesson the war has burned in on the brain and conscience of the Nation.

They were relived from the disparaging distinctions that came into existence with the system of slavery.

But our cause being almost lost something decisive and great must be done.

Not infrequently a statement would be the occasion of scandal and of suffering by innocent parties.

My object was to make the loan more negotiable in Europe and thus to extend the demand, and consequently, to increase the value of our securities.

The value of every article is resolved finally by the ascertainment of its value in gold.

On the other hand, I claimed that all thought of the further use of silver should be postponed until the attempt to secure the co-operation of other countries had been tried faithfully.

In truth, gold plays a small part only in actual business.

The speculative advance in gold has brought legitimate business almost to a standstill, owing to the apprehension of a corner, which from appearances may appear at any moment.

To protect the national honor, every dollar of Government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. . . .

Let it be understood that no repudiator of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted in public place, and it will go far toward strengthening a credit which ought to be the best in the world, and will ultimately enable us to replace…

There was never in his career any ostentatious display of power, never any exercise of wanton or unnecessary authority.

The gratitude of his countrymen rebuked all rivalries.

In the dark days of 1862 he had never despaired of the Republic, when others faltered, he was undismayed.

I cannot imagine that in a hundred years this anniversary, in its organization and conduct, will be thought worthy of imitation.

Let us imagine, or rather indulge the hope that then all the States of the south and the north, from the Arctic Seas to Patagonia, will be united in a national and international celebration in recognition of an event that has increased…

There was not in General Grant's nature any element of suspicion, and his confidence in his friends was free and full.

On no man in public life in this generation were there more frequent charges and insinuations of wrong-doing, and in this generation there has been no man in public life who was freer from all occasion for such insinuations and charges.

My active radicalism had alienated the conservative Republicans.