Albert Beveridge: “One building, scarcely large enough for two hundred and fifty beds, was packed with nearly a thousand sick and dying…”

Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.

The dreams he had dreamed, the visions he had seen back in his Virginia mountains were clad in glories as enchanting as the splendors of their tree-clad summits at break of day--dreams and visions for which strong men should be glad of the…

Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?

History, reason, evidence, march through these pages like infantry, cavalry, and artillery going to battle.