Albert Beveridge: “If any of the officers murmured at their deprivations, he would shame them by good-natured raillery, or encourage them…”

The Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser said that "no man has lived or died in this country, save its father George Washington alone, who united such a warmth of affection for his person, with so deep and unaffected a respect for his…

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.

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.

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.