George Julian: “It was hollow and false, and the best men in the party felt it.”

The only enthusiasm of the campaign was in the new party, and it was perfectly spontaneous and fervid.

In the light of this fact alone, it is impossible to account for the perfectly unbounded and irrepressible enthusiasm which swept over the land during the campaign, and so signally routed the forces of Democracy.

It tempts civilized men to become savages and savages to become devils.

They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.