WITH malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. I have one vote, and I shall always cast that against wrong as long as I live. In every event of life, it is right makes might. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. God must like common people, or he would not have made so many of them. The reasonable man has long since agreed that intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all evils among mankind. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail accurately to predict them in advance. No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty. Of the people, when they rise in mass in behalf of the Union and the liberties of their country, truly may it be said: 'The gates of hell cannot prevail against them.' No man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent. Let not him who is homeless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently to build one for himself. You may fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Better give your path to the dog--even killing the dog would not cure the bite. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody is hindering him. I say "try," for if we never try, we never succeed. The pioneer in any movement is not generally the best man to bring that movement to a successful issue. Have confidence in yourself, a valuable if not indispensable quality. Let us judge not, that we be not judged. When you have an elephant on hand, and he wants to run away, better let him run. It is best not to swap horses in the middle of a stream. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. When you can't remove an obstacle, _plough around it!_ God bless my mother! All I am or hope to be I owe to her. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. DIALOGUES, PLAYS, EXERCISES