Albert Beveridge: “He rode among the troops inspiring, calming, strengthening, steadying.”

The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.

It could borrow money, but could not levy taxes or impose duties to pay the debt.

Would they abandon their posts as judges, and the interests of millions committed to them, to serve the purposes of a single individual?

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…