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My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from vermont] to ohio. more than two days for each hour that i spent in the same journey.

-Rutherford B. Hayes

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My Father And Mother In 1817 Were

Rutherford B. Hayes

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from vermont] to ohio. more than two days for each hour that i spent in the same journey.

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Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that's ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is $2 million. that number is going to be surpassed many times. vermont remains a "cheap state" for the republican national committee. so putting $5 or $10 million into vermont - compared to new york or california or illinois - that's small potatoes.

[my father] did get enough money to buy mules. we didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. as soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and everything, somebody went to our trough - a white man who didn't live very far from us - and he fed the mules paris green, put it in their food and it killed the mules and our cows.

And then he drew a dial from his poke, and looking with lack-lustre eye, says very wisely, 'it is ten o'clock: thus we may see', quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more 'twill be eleven; and so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. it's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. where body how?

Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without god he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with god can be a somebody.

And now i am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. this is my conviction at the age of forty. i am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

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