He told the story of the heroic days of the Revolution and of the heroic days of the War for the Union with a graphic power which will give his addresses on such subjects a permanent place in our best historical literature.

But it is as a soldier that his countrymen will remember him, and it is as a soldier that he would wish to be remembered.

Whatever may be said by the philosopher, the moralist, or the preacher, the instincts of the greater portion of mankind will lead them to award the highest meed of admiration to the military character.

Even when the most selfish of human passions, the love of power or the love of fame, is the stimulant of the soldier's career, he must at least be ready for the supreme sacrifice--the willingness to give his life, if need be, for the…

But when his end is purely unselfish, when the love of country or the desire to save her life by giving his own has entire mastery of the soul, all mankind are agreed to award the good soldier a glory which it bestows nowhere else.

He knew that he was contending for the life of his country, for the fate of human liberty on this continent.

No other cause would have led him to draw his sword; and he cared for no other earthly reward for his service.

Our sense of the presence of a great public danger makes it our duty to address you.

We are satisfied that the leaders of the Democratic Party meditate an attack on the President's possession of his office, the results of which must be the destruction of the reviving industries of the country, civil confusion and war.

The title of President Hayes, therefore, not only rests upon the strongest possible Constitutional sanction, but the honor of both the great parties in the country is solemnly pledged to maintain it.

It will be the President's duty to maintain himself in office, and the duty of all good citizens to stand by him.

Be not lulled by these assurances into a false security.

We believe, on the other hand, that those States, and others whose votes were counted for Tilden, were strongly Republican, and would have been counted for Hayes without a question, but for violence and crime.

I am not sure that modesty or disinterestedness has much place in the matter of the acceptance of high political office.

We often hear a gentleman say: "I am not fit to be Judge; I am not fit to be Governor, or Senator, or member of Congress.

I think other men are better qualified, and I will not consent to stand in their way." This is often said with the utmost sincerity.

He should also remember, so far as the matter of ability is concerned, that other men are likely to be much better judges of his capacity than he is himself.

Let me not be understood as commending the miserable self- seeking which too often leads men to urge their own claims without regard to the public interests.

A man who is his own candidate is commonly a very bad candidate for his party.

One vote, more than once, would have saved the country from what I think its wretched policy in regard to the Philippine Islands.

So I think it is rarely safe for a man who is in political life for public, and not for personal ends, and who values the political principles which he professes, to decline any position of power, either from modesty, doubt of his own…

I have throughout my whole public political life acted upon my own judgment.

I have done what I thought for the public interest without much troubling myself about public opinion.

When she has chosen them she expects them to act according to their best judgement, and not to be thinking about popularity.

The one thing the people of Massachusetts will not forgive in a public servant is that he should act against his own honest judgment to please them.