Albert Beveridge: “What have the state governments to do with it?" Had the Federal Convention exceeded its powers?”

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.

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

What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!