I Am A Radical In Thought (and

How Strange A Scene Is This In Which We Are Such Shifting Figures, Pictures, Shadows. The Mystery Of Our Existence--i Have No Faith In Any Attempted Explanation Of It. It Is All A Dark, Unfathomed Profound.

In The Great And Deep Qualities Of Mind, Heart, And Soul, There Is No Change. Homer And Solomon Speak To The Same Nature In Man That Is Reached By Shakespeare And Lincoln. But In The Accidents, The Surroundings, The Change Is Vast. All Things Now Are Mobile--movable.

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.

The California Fever Is Not Likely To Take Us Off.... There Is Neither Romance Nor Glory In Digging For Gold After The Manner Of The Pictures In The Geography Of Diamond Washing In Brazil.

To Vote Is Like The Payment Of A Debt, A Duty Never To Be Neglected, If Its Performance Is Possible.