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Is This Not True--that In Proportion To The Value Of Their Estates The Extremely Wealthy Pay Far Less Taxes Than Those Of Moderatemeans? Compare The Amount Paid By Millionaires With The Amount Paid By Ordinary Citizens. I Believe That In Proportion To Their Estates They Pay Less Than Half As Much As Ordinary Citizens, Whereas They Ought To Pay More.

My Ambition For Station Was Always Easily Controlled. If The Place Came To Me It Was Welcome. But It Never Seemed To Me Worth Seeking At The Cost Of Self-respect, Or Independence. My Family Were Not Historic; They Were Well-to-do, Did Not Hold Or Seek Office. It Was Easy For Me To Be Contented In Private Life. An Honor Was No Honor To Me, If Obtained By My Own Seeking.

So Far As Laws And Institutions Avail, Men Should Have Equality Of Opportunity For Happiness; That Is, Of Education, Wealth, Power. These Make Happiness Secure. An Equal Diffusion Of Happiness So Far As Laws And Institutions Avail.

In Sumter And Other Counties [in South Carolina] The Whites Are Resorting To Intimidation And Violence To Prevent The Colored People From Organizing For The Elections. The Division There Is Still On The Color Line. Substantially All The Whites Are Democrats And All The Colored People Are Republicans. There Is No Political Principle In Dispute Between Them. The Whites Have The Intelligence, The Property, And The Courage Which Make Power. The Negroes Are For The Most Part Ignorant, Poor, And Timid. My View Is That The Whites Must Be Divided There Before A Better State Of Things Will Prevail.

I Have A Talent For Silence And Brevity. I Can Keep Silent When It Seems Best To Do So, And When I Speak I Can, And Do Usually, Quit When I Am Done. This Talent, Or These Two Talents, I Have Cultivated. Silence And Concise, Brief Speaking Have Got Me Some Laurels, And, I Suspect, Lost Me Some. No Odds. Do What Is Natural To You, And You Are Sure To Get All The Recognition You Are Entitled To.