The election of a Democratic President means a restoration to full power in the government of the worst elements of the rebel Confederacy.

The southern states are to be organized, by violence and intimidation, into a compact political power only needing a small fragment of the northern states to give it absolute control where, by a majority rule of the party, it will govern…

Above all, it has positively closed the question of a third term.

The dollar note is an engagement to pay a dollar, and the dollar intended is the coined dollar of the United States, a certain quantity in weight and fineness of gold or silver, authenticated as such by the stamp of the government.

It is still used by a great majority of mankind as the standard of value.

It seems more like the history of hell than of civilized and Christian communities.

But one way seemed open for a peaceful solution, and that was to gather, if possible, a single legislature that could be recognized as the depositary of the representative will of the people of Louisiana.

What I mean by specie payments is simply that paper money ought to be made equal to coin, so that when you receive it, it will buy as much beef, corn or clothing as coin.

The promise made in 1862, and so often repeated, is about to be fulfilled.

To resume is to recover from illness, to escape danger, to stand sound and healthy in the financial world, with our currency based upon the intrinsic value of solid coin.

The feeling is growing daily that General Grant will not allow his name to be used and that, while his eminent services should be fully recognized and rewarded, it is neither right nor politic to elect him to the presidency for the third…

It has secured, for the first time in our history, the rights of a naturalized citizen to protection against claims of military duty in his native country.

While it respects religion for its beneficial influence upon civil society, it recognizes the right of each individual to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, without prejudice or interference.

It supports free common schools as the basis of republican institutions.

It has done more than any party that ever existed to provide lands for the landless.

Why, my countrymen, United States notes may now travel the circuit of the world with undiminished honor, and be everywhere redeemed at par in coin.

Probably no one who ever held my position has ever been so utterly indifferent to the distribution of patronage, except that I always insisted that good Republicans should be appointed to every position, small or great.

We should meet and act as though we were of one mind, until those delegates who are hostile to you refuse to act with us, and if we fail to win them over, the separation will be their act, not ours.

I regard Indiana and New York as the pivotal states, and there the struggle should be.

I cannot afford to be a candidate unless I expect to succeed.

I believe, from information already received, that I can succeed, but only after a struggle that is distasteful to me, and which I cannot well afford.

United States notes are now, in form, security, and convenience, the best circulating medium known.

The United States note, to the extent that it is willingly taken by the people, and can, beyond question, be maintained at par in coin, is the least burdensome form of debt.

The sums that we are dealing with are enormous, affecting the welfare of every branch of our country's industry and of our entire people.

I worked hard that winter, for hard work, I thought, was the way to fortune.