Albert Beveridge: “It is therefore of the last importance to neutrals that this principle be maintained unimpaired.”

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.

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.

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.