This Is The Last Of Earth! I

America Does Not Go Abroad In Search Of Monsters To Destroy. She Is The Well-wisher To The Freedom And Independence Of All. She Well Knows That By Enlisting Under Other Banners Than Her Own, Were They Even The Banners Of Foreign Independence, She Would Involve Herself Beyond The Power Of Extrication In All The Wars Of Interest And Intrigue, Of Individual Avarice, Envy And Ambition, Which Assume The Colors And Usurp The Standards Of Freedom.

My Stern Chase After Time Is, To Borrow A Simile From Tom Paine, Like The Race Of A Man With A Wooden Leg After A Horse.

There Still Remains One Effort Of Magnanimity, One Sacrifice Of Prejudice And Passion, To Be Made By The Individuals Throughout The Nation Who Have Heretofore Followed The Standards Of Political Party. It Is That Of Discarding Every Remnant Of Rancor Against Each Other, Of Embracing As Countrymen And Friends, And Of Yielding To Talents And Virtue Alone That Confidence Which In Times Of Contention For Principle Was Bestowed Only Upon Those Who Bore The Badge Of Party Communion.

The Mere Title Of Lawyer Is Sufficient To Deprive A Man Of The Public Confidence. ... The Most Innocent And Irreproachable Life Cannot Guard A Lawyer Against The Hatred Of His Fellow Citizens.

We Know The Redemption Must Come.