Albert Beveridge: “Wilkinson is the only man I ever saw who was from the bark to the very core a villain....”

Through nearly all the important legislation and diplomacy of those stirring and interpretative years ran, with ever increasing clearness, the dividing line of Nationalism as against localism.

In argument and reasoning he was the equal if not the superior of Madison himself; and his grim personality made the meek one of Madison seem tender in comparison.

Washington was the soul of the American cause.

Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?