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The Great Interests Of An Agricultural, Commercial, And Manufacturing Nation Are So Linked In Union Together That No Permanent Cause Of Prosperity To One Of Them Can Operate Without Extending Its Influence To The Others. All These Interests Are Alike Under The Protecting Power Of The Legislative Authority, And The Duties Of The Representative Bodies Are To Conciliate Them In Harmony Together.

Whoever Tells The Best Story Wins.

There Still Remains One Effort Of Magnanimity, One Sacrifice Of Prejudice And Passion, To Be Made By The Individuals Throughout The Nation Who Have Heretofore Followed The Standards Of Political Party. It Is That Of Discarding Every Remnant Of Rancor Against Each Other, Of Embracing As Countrymen And Friends, And Of Yielding To Talents And Virtue Alone That Confidence Which In Times Of Contention For Principle Was Bestowed Only Upon Those Who Bore The Badge Of Party Communion.

This Mode Of Electioneering Suited Neither My Taste Nor My Principles. I Thought It Equally Unsuitable To My Personal Character And To The Station In Which I Am Placed.

It Has Been My Custom For Many Years To Read The Bible In Its Entirety Once A Year