Albert Beveridge: “Can our Countrymen be caught by so flimsy a pretext?”

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.

To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.

That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.

No man ever bore public honors with so meek a dignity ...