Farewell To Ye All! In

I Would Rather Be Beaten And Be A Man Than To Be Elected And Be A Little Puppy Dog. I Have Always Supported Measures And Principles And Not Men. I Have Acted Fearless[ly] And Independent And I Never Will Regret My Course. I Would Rather Be Politically Buried Than To Be Hypocritically Immortalized.

I Would Rather Be Politically Dead Than Hypocritically Immortalized.

We Must Not Permit Our Respect For The Dead Or Our Sympathy For The Living To Lead Us Into An Act Of Injustice To The Balance Of The Living. I Will Not Attempt To Prove That Congress Has No Power To Appropriate This Money As An Act Of Charity. Every Member Upon This Floor Knows It. We Have The Right As Individuals To Give Away As Much Of Our Own Money As We Please In Charity; But As Members Of Congress We Have No Right To Appropriate A Dollar Of The Public Money.

If I Could Rest Anywhere, It Would Be In Arkansas, Where The Men Are Of The Real Half-horse, Half-alligator Breed Such As Grows Nowhere Else On The Face Of The Universal Earth.

I Have Suffered My Self To Be Politically Sacrificed To Save My Country From Ruin And Disgrace And If I Am Never A Gain Elected I Will Have The Gratification To Know That I Have Done My Duty.