Albert Beveridge: “Here, even here, we stand on the brink of fate.”

If this goes down, we shall immediately see attempted another act of Congress declaring that the President shall continue in office during life, reserving to another occasion the transfer of the succession to his heirs, and the…

Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.

Washington was the soul of the American cause.

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…