Albert Beveridge: “He must, then, execute a treaty, where he, and he alone, possesses the means of executing it.”

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…

Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.

In argument and reasoning he was the equal if not the superior of Madison himself; and his grim personality made the meek one of Madison seem tender in comparison.

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.