Biographical memoir / James K. Patterson -- Commencement speech at Yale, 1866 -- The fallacy of Usury laws: a speech on the conventional interest law -- The electoral bill agitation -- Extracts from railroad articles: On public aid of local companies ; On limiting railroads to railroad business -- From the record of the Constitutional Convention: Speech, accepting presidency of the Convention ; Speech on the revision clause ; On railroad commissioners -- Speech before the Democratic State Convention, 1895, when defeated for the nomination for governor -- The Louisville Post's summary of a speech before Commercial Convention -- In eulogy to Hon. Wm. Goebel -- Speech on tariff at Louisville, Nov. 3, 1894 -- Speech in favor of sound money, 1896; a reply to Sen. Stone of Missouri -- Cause of the split in the Democratic Party, 1902 -- Why conservative Democrats should vote for Taft -- In answer to Judge Lindsay -- The tobacco question -- Same, in answer to Judge O'Rear -- The taxation amendment -- The initiative referendum and recall -- Same, further discussed -- The philosophy of life: a fragment -- Nature of the allegiance that a man owes his party to support its nominees