We Are In A Period When Old

My Policy Is Trust, Peace, And To Put Aside The Bayonet. I Do Not Think The Wise Policy Is To Decide Contested Elections In The States By The Use Of The National Army.

While I Am In Favor Of The Government Promptly Enforcing The Laws For The Present, Defending The Forts And Collecting The Revenue,i Am Not In Favor Of A War Policy With A View To The Conquest Of Any Of The Slave States; Except Such As Are Needed To Give Us A Good Boundary. If Maryland Attempts To Go Off, Suppress Her In Order To Save The Potomac And The District Of Columbia. Cut A Piece Off Of Western Virginia And Keep Missouri And All The Territories.

One Point In My Public Life: I Did All I Could For The Reform Of The Civil Service, For The Building Up Of The South, For A Soundcurrency, Etc., Etc., But I Never Forgot My Party.... I Knew That All Good Measures Would Suffer If My Administration Was Followed By The Defeat Of My Party. Result, A Great Victory In 1880. Executive And Legislature Both Completely Republican.

As Friends Go It Is Less Important To Live.

Free Government Cannot Long Endure If Property Is Largely In A Few Hands, And Large Masses Of People Are Unable To Earn Homes, Education, And A Support In Old Age.