George Julian: “My triumph had no taint of compromise in it, and nothing saved me but perfect courage and absolute defiance of my foes.”

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.

Custom, and the faculty of adaptation, have a very reconciling influence upon communities as well as individuals.

The laws regulating the ownership and disposition of landed property not only affect the well-being but frequently the destiny of a people.

Such a state of affairs is worse than pestilence or famine; but the evil of uncertain titles puts on new and very aggravated forms in our gold-bearing regions.