Albert Beveridge: “It was a remarkable parentage that produced this child who in manhood was to become the master-builder of American…”

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.

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.

Genius, and learning, and consummate skill, Moulding each thought, obedient to the will; Affections pure, as e'er warmed human breast, And love, in blessing others, doubly blest; Virtue unspotted, uncorrupted truth, Gentle in age, and…

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.