I Hope You Will Be Benefitted By

I Have The Greatest Aversion To Being A Candidate On A Ticket With A Man Whose Record As An Upright Public Man Is To Be In Question--to Be Defended From The Beginning To The End.

It Is The Desire Of The Good People Of The Whole Country That Sectionalism As A Factor In Our Politics Should Disappear.

I Would Honor The Man Who Give To His Country A Good Newspaper.

It Could Be Clearly Proved That By A Practical Nullification [by The South] Of The Fifteenth Amendment The Republicans Have For Several Years Been Deprived Of A Majority In Both The House And Senate. The Failure Of The South To Faithfully Observe The Fifteenth Amendment Is The Cause Of The Failure Of All Efforts Towards Complete Pacification. It Is On This Hook That The Bloody Shirt Now Hangs.

One Thing You May Be Sure Of, I Was Not A Party To Covering Up Anything.