Adlai Stevenson: “This declared indifference, but as I must think covert zeal for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate.”

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…

In the rush of events, party antagonisms, in the main, soon fade from remembrance.

My countrymen, the little settlement planted just three centuries ago near the spot upon which we have to-day assembled has under divine guidance grown into a mighty nation.

What page in our history tells of deeds so fraught with blessings to the generations of men as the discovery of America?