Adlai Stevenson: “His parchment took the place of the battle-field.”

It is high privilege and high honor to be a citizen of this grand republic.

Bearing in mind that 'that which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before,' significant events of the past must be known, to the end that we intelligently comprehend the present, and are enabled, even in scant measure, to…

As one standing, alas, 'upon the western slope,' let me adjure the young men of this magnificent county--my home for more than half a century--to study thoroughly the history of our own State, and of the grand republic of which it is a…

Our eyes behold to-day the marvellous results of the far-seeing statesmanship in which it was conceived.