The leading men of American history have been ill-treated in this respect--for a century they have been held up to our vision as superhuman creatures to admire whom was a duty, to criticize whom was a blasphemy, and to love or understand whom was an impossibility.
Beveridge reflects on how American historical figures have been portrayed as superhuman, making them difficult to relate to or criticize.
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There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.
The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States.
No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
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