Monroe proclaimed to the world the determination of the United States not to suffer any European power to interfere with the internal concerns of independent American states.

I look upon this conference as having the same relation to the future of America as the conference of the thirteen British colonies, in 1774, had to the declaration of American independence.

But, more important still, your conference contemplates only peaceful aids for mutual benefit; theirs provided for war and a desperate struggle with superior forces.

I do not recall, in the annals of man, a meeting of the selected representatives of any nations with nobler aims or with greater opportunity for good than this conference of American states.

You do not unite to conquer, but to help each other in developing your resources and in exchanging your productions.

If your conference deals wisely with your opportunity you will light a torch that will illuminate the world.

And, more important than all, you will pave the way for a congress in which all these states will be represented in a greater than an Amphictyonic council, with broader jurisdiction and scope than the rulers of ancient Greece conceived of.

Because he did so well in both his previous terms that the Republican party of Ohio was willing to sanction him as its candidate for a third term--and intend to elect him.

Why should not a man be nominated by the Republicans for a third term as Governor of Ohio?

What is there in the office that prevents his full and free and complete performance of all the duties imposed upon him as Governor of Ohio?

The President of the United States is armed with more power during his four years than any prince or potentate of Europe; he exercises a power greater than any man in any country of the world, whether a monarchy or empire.

The Governor of Ohio has less power than almost any other governor of the United States.

By integrity and toil he mounted, step by step, on the ladder of fame.

Nearly every man who has arisen to prominence in our country has arisen from the ranks by toil.

No problem is submitted to us of equal importance and difficulty.

Our action will affect the value of all property of the people of the United States, and the wages of labor of every kind, and our trade and commerce with all the world.

In the consideration of such a question we should not be controlled by previous opinions or bound by local interests, but, with the lights of experience and full knowledge of all the complicated facts involved, we should give to the…

With the wide diversity of opinion that prevails, each of us must make concessions in order to secure such a measure as will accomplish the objects sought for without impairing the public credit or the general interests of our people.

This is no time for visionary theories of political economy.

We must deal with facts as we find them and not as we wish them.

To know what measures ought to be adopted we should have a clear conception of what we wish to accomplish.

Those of us who were in favor of good money, whether of gold or silver, or whether issued by the government in the form of notes or currency by the national banks, all to be maintained at par with each other and of equal purchasing power…

This was a most important amendment and one that has been generally accepted as indicating the purpose of the country to maintain all dollars at par with each other.

I did not believe this but hoped that it would not decline in value, and, in any event, it was better to stop the compulsory coinage of the bullion into dollars, as to force them into circulation would reduce the purchasing power of the…

When the result became apparent I was anxious to arrest the purchase of silver, and I never could comprehend why anyone not directly interested in the mining of silver could favor a policy involving so heavy a loss to the people of the…