thought, and free schools are dearer and more universally enjoyed to-day than ever before.

November 30.

We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.

December I.

It is a cause for painful regret and solicitude that an effort is being made by those high in the counsels of the allied parties to divide the people of the country into classes and create distinctions among us which, in fact, do not exist and are repugnant to our form of government.

December 2.

What use to boast of the glories of the past if we discredit them all in the living present?

December 3.

Our victories must be in the arts, in the sciences and in manufacture, agriculture

and learning, if we would really make a great and progressive and enduring nation.

December 4.

The ambition of every American is for the well-being of his country, for he knows if all goes well with his country, all is likely to go well with him.

December 5.

What a mighty, resistless power for good is a united nation of free men. It makes for peace and prestige, for progress and liberty.

December 6.

A noble manhood, nobly consecrated to man, never dies.

December 7.

A system which provides a mutual ex

change of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade.

December 8.

It is not a question of candidates, it is not a contention for office; it is a contention for country-not a contention inspired by sectional considerations, but of devotion to the duty which affects and inspires the great heart of the American people.

December 9.

The bitterness of the war belongs to the past. Its glories are the common heritage of us all. What was won in that great conflict belongs just as sacredly to those who lost as to those who triumphed.

December 10.

The first mission that a poor, depre

ciated, debased dollar performs is to find its way into the hands of some poor man who cannot afford to lose it.

December II.

I would be glad to contribute toward binding in indivisible union the different divisions of the country which, indeed, now "have every inducement of sympathy and interest" to weld them together more strongly than ever.

December 12.

The soldiers and sailors of the Union should neither be neglected nor forgotten. The government which they served so well must not make their lives or condition harder by treating them as suppliants for relief in old age or distress.

December 13.

Whatever is to be deprecated in our