Albert Beveridge: “How fruitless the expense of blood!" Washington alone can end it.”

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.

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.

No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.

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.