It is this decision of the Judges which has been made the basis of the bill on your table--a decision shocking to every free Government, sapping the foundations of all your constitutions, and annihilating at a breath the best hope of man.
Beveridge expresses outrage over a judicial decision that he believes threatens the foundations of democracy.
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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.
No man ever bore public honors with so meek a dignity ...
No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
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…
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