Adlai Stevenson: “I should be exceedingly glad to see slavery abolished in the District of Columbia.”

We, the heirs of all the ages, in the plenitude of our enjoyments, and the prodigality of the favors showered upon us, hail Columbus our benefactor.

And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities.

In the advocacy, however, of what he believed to be for the public weal, 'he took counsel ever of his courage, never of his fears.' That he possessed the ability to have acquitted himself with honor in responsible positions of public…