If a man whose principles are good will yield to an evil motive, it is not likely that the man whose principles are bad will resist it.

The American people are upright and honest.

They will vindicate and stand by any man in the contest for honesty and uprightness, be he Democrat or Republican, so long as they believe that the ends for which he is striving are for the public good.

They will not sustain a man whose counsel they think bad, however honest he may be in his own conduct, or however much he may desire to secure honesty in the conduct of others.

No man ever yet accomplished much good by abandoning his party while he continued to hold its principles.