Albert Beveridge: “Gerry can negotiate a treaty which shall preserve the peace without sacrificing the independence of our country.”

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

In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.

To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.

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.