His memory will never die until time shall be no more.

I have always been of the opinion, and have so declared in public speeches and newspaper articles, that the true policy of the Pacific Coast was the division of its area into small States.

As a partial compensation for this inevitable want of political power in the lower house of Congress, it was the true policy, as I have declared, for the Pacific Coast to divide its immense territorial area into small States, so as to…

As a lawyer, and being somewhat acquainted with the history of my country, I am compelled to answer, No.

Again, the possession of power is always connected with the desire to perpetuate it, and also with a sensitive jealousy of all measures having a tendency to diminish its controlling effectiveness, or to lessen the value of the units…

There has been but one instance in our history where a State has been divided, and the segregated portion been admitted into the Union as a State; and that is the case of West Virginia; but that admission was based on facts and conditions…

Virginia not only claimed the right peaceably to secede from the Union but to be the sole and exclusive judge not only of the existence, but also, of the sufficiency of the causes, to warrant such secession.

Esau sold his birthright, with all that it implied, for a mess of pottage.

The wearers of the shoe, although voting for its purchase, soon felt its pinch, and they wanted compensation for its pain.

I must confess that I believed the ordinance valid, and that the objections urged against it were unsound, and I was fully convinced the Court would so hold.

An appeal was taken by the Company to the Supreme Court, and that learned and unimpassioned tribunal affirmed every position taken by me in the case; it held the ordinance to be valid and the compromise binding.

On the publication of the decision of the Supreme Court, it was amusing to see my calumniators retreat to cover; still damning, however, with faint praise.

I have opposed this network of tracks because instead of being an aid to travel and commerce, it is an actual obstruction of them.

The idea of doing the commercial business of a million people, or one-half a million, with the accompanying passenger traffic, across nine railroad tracks, carries with it a strong implication of the absurd.

The City Council has recognized the fact and prohibited the closing by any railroad company of the mouth of any street for over five minutes; but this is only a partial aleviation, and not the removal of the obstruction or danger.

The irritation arising from these causes will intensify with the increase of population and the swelling of the volume of coastwise and ocean commerce.

Some of the railroads have wisely noted the indications of the coming storm and have tunnelled under the city, deeming it cheaper to pay interest on permanent tunnel investments, than to pay damages for slaughter and injury on the avenue.

June 6th, 1889, will ever be a memorable day in the history of Seattle--that being the day of the Great Fire which, like a besom of destruction swept out of existence a goodly portion of the embryo city.

Brilliant prospects, and glowing anticipations, evanished like the rainbow amid the storm of fire.

Nearly all the business houses were reduced to ashes; or, if any portion of their roughly serrated and toppling walls remained, they were a silent and menancing memento of the fierce power of the fire-fiend.

The view was grand but terrible--sublime but cruel.

I never before was so impressed with the idea of annihilation, as I was in viewing that rolling, rushing, leaping and devouring volume or field of fire.

The people of Tacoma promptly and nobly rushed to the assistance of Seattle, with provisions and personal services.

It had passed through an ordeal of fire and was found to be not wanting in true metal.

The game laws may arrest their slaughter and prevent their complete annihilation; but I doubt it.