Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go

I Am At Liberty To Vote As My Conscience And Judgment Dictates To Be Right, Without The Yoke Of Any Party On Me... Look At My Arms, You Will Find No Party Hand-cuff On Them.

I Have Suffered My Self To Be Politically Sacrificed To Save My Country From Ruin And Disgrace And If I Am Never A Gain Elected I Will Have The Gratification To Know That I Have Done My Duty.

We Must Not Permit Our Respect For The Dead Or Our Sympathy For The Living To Lead Us Into An Act Of Injustice To The Balance Of The Living. I Will Not Attempt To Prove That Congress Has No Power To Appropriate This Money As An Act Of Charity. Every Member Upon This Floor Knows It. We Have The Right As Individuals To Give Away As Much Of Our Own Money As We Please In Charity; But As Members Of Congress We Have No Right To Appropriate A Dollar Of The Public Money.

A Bulger Of A Place It Is. The Number Of The Ships Beat Me All Hollow, And Looked For All The World Like A Big Clearing In The West, With The Dead Trees All Standing.

I Know Nothing, By Experience, Of Party Discipline. I Would Rather Be A Raccoon-dog, And Belong To A Negro In The Forest, Than To Belong To Any Party, Further Than To Do Justice To All, And To Promote The Interests Of My Country. The Time Will And Must Come, When Honesty Will Receive Its Reward, And When The People Of This Nation Will Be Brought To A Sense Of Their Duty, And Will Pause And Reflect How Much It Cost Us To Redeem Ourselves From The Government Of One Man.