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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.

Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. Washington is the mightiest name on earth--long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name an eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on.