Let Them Impeach And Be

The Goal To Strive For Is A Poor Government But A Rich People.

Outside Of The Constitution We Have No Legal Authority More Than Private Citizens, And Within It We Have Only So Much As That Instrument Gives Us. This Broad Principle Limits All Our Functions And Applies To All Subjects.

The Homestead Policy Was Established Only After Long And Earnest Resistance; Experience Proves Its Wisdom. The Lands In The Hands Of Industrious Settlers, Whose Labor Creates Wealth And Contributes To The Public Resources, Are Worth More To The United States Than If They Had Been Reserved As A Solitude For Future Purchasers.

I Feel Incompetent To Perform Duties...which Have Been So Unexpectedly Thrown Upon Me.

I Have Performed My Duty To My God, My Country, And My Family. I Have Nothing To Fear In Approaching Death. To Me It Is The Mere Shadow Of God's Protecting Wing . . . Here I Will Rest In Quiet And Peace Beyond The Reach Of Calumny's Poisoned Shaft, The Influence Of Envy And Jealous Enemies, Where Treason And Traitors Or State Backsliders And Hypocrites In Church Can Have No Peace.