Let them spread the influence of our republican institutions north and south, until the whole continent of America shall be a brotherhood of republics.

Let them assert the rights of American citizenship, so that they will be respected as were the rights of citizens of the Roman republic.

Let them improve even upon the protective policy we have pursued, so as to diversify our industries and plant in all parts of our country the workshops of millions of well-paid contented citizens.

Let them do what we have not been able to do since the war--restore our commerce to every port and protect it under our flag in every sea.

My countrymen, I regret to say it, you cannot accomplish any of these great objects of national desire through the agency of the Democratic party.

It cannot be made an instrument of progress and reform.

You may punish us for our shortcomings by its success, but you will punish yourselves as well and stay the progress of your country.

A party that with seventy majority in the House cannot pass a bill on any subject of party politics, great or small, is not fit to govern the country.

Every advance, every reform, every improvement, the protection of your labor, the building of your navy, the assertion of your rights as a free man, the maintenance of good money--a good dollar, good in every land, worth a dollar in…

What we want now is an American policy broad enough to embrace the continent, conservative enough to protect the rights of every man, poor as well as rich, and brave enough to do what is right, whatever stands in the way.

We want protection to American citizens and protection to American laborers, a free vote and a fair count, an assertion of all the powers of the government in doing what is right.

It is because I believe that the administration of Blaine and Logan will give us such a policy, and that I know the Democratic party is not capable of it, that I invoke your aid and promise you mine to secure the election of the Republican…

There are some financial dangers ahead which can only be avoided by changes in our financial legislation.

The most imminent of these dangers, and the only one to which I now ask the attention of Congress, arises from the continued coinage of silver and the increasing representation of it by silver certificates.

But I also believe that gold and silver can only be made to maintain their comparative value by the joint action of commercial nations.

Not only is there now no joint action taken by these nations to place and keep silver on an equality with gold, according to existing standards, but it has been by the treatment it has received from European nations greatly lessened in…

After giving the subject careful consideration, I have been forced to the conclusion that unless both the coinage of silver dollars and the issue of silver certificates are suspended, there is danger that silver, and not gold, may become…

To have forced more into circulation would have excited a doubt whether any of our paper money could be maintained at par with gold.

Bimetallism could only exist where the market value of the two metals approached the coinage value, or where a strong government, with a good credit, received and paid out coins of each metal at parity with each other.

With free coinage in these conditions no gold coins would be minted and all the money of the United States would be reduced in value to the sole silver standard, and gold would be hoarded and exported.

I was in hope, with the Senator from Connecticut, who introduced the resolution, that these papers would be published, and nothing more would be said about them here, but let the people determine the issue and let this matter go down in…

But, sir, whenever, in my presence, in a public assemblage, Jefferson Davis shall be treated as a patriot, I must enter my solemn protest.

Whenever the motives and causes of the war, the beginning and end of which I have seen, are brought into question, I must stand, as I have always stood, upon the firm conviction that it was a causeless rebellion, made with bad motives, and…

We have given up the right of the people to secede from the Union; we have given up the right of each state to judge for itself of the infractions of the constitution and the mode of redress; we have given up the right to control our own…

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