Universal Suffrage Is Sound In Principle. The

One Of The Tests Of The Civilization Of People Is The Treatment Of Its Criminals.

I Prefer To Make No New Declarations [on Southern Policy Beyond What Was In The Letter Of Acceptance]. But You May Say, If You Deem It Advisable, That You Know That I Will Stand By The Friendly And Encouraging Words Of That Letter, And By All That They Imply. You Cannot Express That Too Strongly.

Have Been Reading "genesis" Several Sundays, Not As A Christian Reads For "spiritual Consolation," "instruction," Etc., Not As Aninfidel Reads To Carp And Quarrel And Criticize, But As One Who Wishes To Be Informed And Furnished In The Earliest And Most Wonderful Of All Literary Productions. The Literature Of The Bible Should Be Studied As One Studies Shakespeare, For Illustration And Language, For Its True Pictures Of Man And Woman Nature, For Its Early Historical Record.

Abolish Plutocracy If You Would Abolish Poverty. As Millionaires Increase, Pauperism Grows. The More Millionaires, The More Paupers.

The California Fever Is Not Likely To Take Us Off.... There Is Neither Romance Nor Glory In Digging For Gold After The Manner Of The Pictures In The Geography Of Diamond Washing In Brazil.