Albert Beveridge: “Whenever in any country judges are dependent, property is insecure." What had happened in France?”

Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.

He has raised the American people in their own esteem, and, if the influence of truth and justice, reason and argument is not lost in Europe, he has raised the consideration of the United States in that quarter of the world....

Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.

So overwhelming was the popular feeling against a strong National Government that, if the Anti-Constitutionalists had concentrated their attack upon this secret purpose of the leading Constitutionalists to make it such by easy stages, it…