Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally - and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to in…

The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cheri…

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be placed…

No doubt this great change has caused serious disturbance to our Southern communities. This is to be deplored, though it was perhaps unavoidable. But those who…

We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and…