Albert Beveridge: “No morn ever dawned more favorably than ours did; and no day was ever more clouded than the present....”

History, reason, evidence, march through these pages like infantry, cavalry, and artillery going to battle.

The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.

But an act universally recognized as criminal, such as robbery, murder, and the like, "is an offense against the community of nations.

The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.