Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

Lafcadio Hearn
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The following quote is taken from Abraham Lincoln’s letter to his wife. It was first published in the Springfield Republican on November 20, 1854. Lincoln was running for the Senate seat at the time, and this letter expressed his frustration with the state of politics in Illinois. He believed that the state had been run into the ground to benefit the interests of certain people at the expense of everybody else. Lincoln went on to win this election, and he ended up serving as President of the United States during the Civil War.

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