Albert Beveridge: “The western settlers (I speak now from my own observations) stand as it were, upon a pivot.”

History, reason, evidence, march through these pages like infantry, cavalry, and artillery going to battle.

My God! what a situation has our country reached.

Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.

So overwhelming was the popular feeling against a strong National Government that, if the Anti-Constitutionalists had concentrated their attack upon this secret purpose of the leading Constitutionalists to make it such by easy stages, it…