Albert Beveridge: “Blood had been shed in New England; blood, they knew, must soon flow in Virginia.”

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.

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

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.

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