Albert Beveridge: “A person of little ability and less character always could inflame a portion of the people when they could be assembled.”

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

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

There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.

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.