Albert Beveridge: “But no one had a sounder judgment, a more engaging personality, or a broader view of the drift of things than John…”

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

The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.

The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.

As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.