I Am A Radical In Thought (and

Nothing Brings Out The Lower Traits Of Human Nature Like Office-seeking. Men Of Good Character And Impulses Are Betrayed By It Into All Sorts Of Meanness.

I Am Asked If I Would Not Be Gratified If My Friends Would Procure Me Promotion To A Brigadier-generalship. My Feeling Is That I Would Rather Be One Of The Good Colonels Than One Of The Poor Generals. The Colonel Of A Regiment Has One Of The Most Agreeable Positions In The Service, And One Of The Most Useful. "a Good Colonel Makes A Good Regiment," Is An Axiom.

The Climate Of Ohio Is Perfect, Considered As The Home Of An Ideal Republican People. Climate Has Much To Do With National Character.... A Climate Which Permits Labor Out-of-doors Every Month In The Year And Which Requires Industry To Secure Comfort--to Provide Food, Shelter, Clothing, Fuel, Etc.--is The Very Climate Which Secures The Highest Civilization.

What Congress And The Popular Sentiment Approve Is Rarely Defeated By Reason Of Constitutional Objections. I Trust The Measure Will Turn Out Well. It Is A Great Relief To Me. Defeat In This Way, After A Full And Public Hearing Before This [electoral] Commission, Is Not Mortifying In Any Degree, And Success Will Be In All Respects More Satisfactory.

Let Every Man, Every Corporation, And Especially Let Every Village, Town, And City, Every County And State, Get Out Of Debt And Keep Out Of Debt. It Is The Debtor That Is Ruined By Hard Times.