Albert Beveridge: “He could fight to the death with arms or arguments; but personal warfare by tongue or pen was beyond or beneath him.”

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.

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.

The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.

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