Albert Beveridge: “Had France felt for the United States any portion of that respect to which our real importance entitles us, would she…”

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.

These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.

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.