Albert Beveridge: “Now, at last, the new Constitution is to be really debated; and debated openly before the people and the world.”

The passions of men stimulate them to avail themselves of the weakness of others.

My God! what a situation has our country reached.

Through nearly all the important legislation and diplomacy of those stirring and interpretative years ran, with ever increasing clearness, the dividing line of Nationalism as against localism.

The war in which the several potentates of Europe were engaged against France, although in almost every instance declared by that power, was pronounced to be a war for the extirpation of human liberty, and for the banishment of free…