Give us but a few years more and Oregon, ripe as a plum, would drop in our lap.

To hinder that is a crime.

What Polk proposes is insincerity, and all insincerity must fail.

There is but one result when pretense is pitted against preparedness.

Ah, if ever we needed wisdom and self-restraint, we need them now! Yet look at what we face! Look at what we may lose! And that through party--through platform--through _politics_!" He sighed as he paused in his walk and turned to me.