8. To recognize the result of the election as the will of the
people and therefore as the law.

9. To continue to vote for a righteous although defeated cause as
long as there is a reasonable hope of victory.

"The proudest now is but my peer,
The highest not more high;
To-day of all the weary year,
A king of men am I.

"To-day alike are great and small,
The nameless and the known;
My palace is the people's hall,
The ballot-box my throne!"

WHITTIER.




=Thanksgiving Day=

Appointed by the President--usually the last Thursday in November.


Now observed as a holiday in all the States, but not a legal holiday in
all. The President's proclamation recommends that it be set apart as a
day of prayer and rejoicing. The day is of New England origin, the first
one being set by Governor Bradford of the Massachusetts colony on