No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the T...ory Party.... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate,... And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by e...ducation; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall not be surprised if Colonel [John Charles] Fremont receives less than one hundred electoral votes. But, after all, the goo...d cause has made a great progress. Antislavery sentiment has been created and the people have been educated to a large extent. I did hope that this election would put an end to angry discussion upon this exciting topic by placing the general Government in the right position in regard to it and thereby securing to antislavery effort a foothold among those who have the evil in their midst. But further work is to be done and my sense of duty determines me to keep on in the path I have chosen ... to do what I can ... to aid in forming a public opinion on this subject which will "mitigate and finally eradicate the evil."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Urging the national government] to eradicate local prejudices and mistaken rivalships to consolidate the affairs of the states in...to one harmonious interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others sa...y Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »