The Enactment Of The Homestead Act Would

It Is Our Sacred Duty To Transmit Unimpaired To Our Posterity The Blessings Of Liberty Which Were Bequeathed To Us By The Founders Of The Republic.

Who, Then, Will Govern? The Answer Must Be, Man - For We Have No Angels In The Shape Of Men, As Yet, Who Are Willing To Take Charge Of Our Political Affairs.

Let Us Look Forward To The Time When We Can Take The Flag Of Our Country And Nail It Below The Cross, And There Let It Wave As It Waved In The Olden Times, And Let Us Gather Around It And Inscribed For Our Motto: 'liberty And Union, One And Inseparable, Now And Forever,' And Exclaim, 'christ First, Our Country Next!'

The Homestead Policy Was Established Only After Long And Earnest Resistance; Experience Proves Its Wisdom. The Lands In The Hands Of Industrious Settlers, Whose Labor Creates Wealth And Contributes To The Public Resources, Are Worth More To The United States Than If They Had Been Reserved As A Solitude For Future Purchasers.

If I Am To Be Shot At, I Want No Man To Be In The Way Of The Bullet.