Albert Beveridge: “Prepare for the crisis, and ... meet it as becomes men and freemen....”

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....

Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.

Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.

If this goes down, we shall immediately see attempted another act of Congress declaring that the President shall continue in office during life, reserving to another occasion the transfer of the succession to his heirs, and the…