Albert Beveridge: “It was a guarantee that they might build railroads across State lines and be safe from local interference with…”

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.

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.

In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.