Our theories are incompatible with a government for more than a single State.

We can form no union which shall be closer than an alliance between sovereigns.

What is to become of us and of our constitution?

Whatever the subject upon which he wrote to friends, he was sure to refer to the woeful state of the country, and the black future it portended.

The first impressions made on the youthful mind are of vast importance; and, most unfortunately, they are in the South all erroneous.

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.

The Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser said that "no man has lived or died in this country, save its father George Washington alone, who united such a warmth of affection for his person, with so deep and unaffected a respect for his…

No man ever bore public honors with so meek a dignity ...

To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.

Genius, and learning, and consummate skill, Moulding each thought, obedient to the will; Affections pure, as e'er warmed human breast, And love, in blessing others, doubly blest; Virtue unspotted, uncorrupted truth, Gentle in age, and…

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

No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.

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.

That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.

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.