County Option in Indiana (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

J. Frank Hanly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332117244 ISBN 13: 9781332117246

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from County Option in Indiana

It is not only the privilege, it is the right and the bounden duty of every man living in a free commonwealth to speak the truth to his fellows, without fear or favor, as God gives him to see and understand the truth, concerning any matter affecting the public welfare. One's countrymen are entitled to the reason for the faith by which he walks. They may not accept his faith, but his reasons for his faith are their just due.

This is peculiarly true of one who has held at the hands of his fellows high place in the conduct of the commonwealth's affairs.

I am here today to embrace that privilege, to claim that right and discharge that duty concerning a matter which I have long felt and do now. Feel to be of deep and abiding importance to this people - a people, who, in the light of my many limitations and temperamental defects, have signally honored me, making me thereby their debtor to the end of my days, be they few or many.

For months I have not spoken on any public question. But the time has come when conditions in the state and gratitude for past favors compel me to break my silence. I speak disinterestedly. If I know my soul I have no wish but the public good, no desire but the happiness of this people. The fires of self interest burn low on the hearthstone of my heart. My country has become my larger self, the dearest part of me. I have no machine or organization to pro mote; no patronage to bestow; no favorites to reward; no foes to punish. I seek no office; no public preferment of any kind. There is absolutely nothing within your power to give or bestow that I desire you to do for me other than to hear me for my cause, to give consideration to what I say relating to matters of public concern, and to permit me to continue to abide among you and share your destiny, whatever that destiny may be, until my life's measure shall be filled.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332117244
• ISBN 13: 9781332117246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38