George Julian: “I assisted in the examination of our prisoners at Annapolis, and never before had been so touched by any spectacle of…”

The system of public plunder inaugurated by Jackson was in full blast, and an organized effort to reform it was the real need of the hour; but here was the weak point of the Whigs.

I not only meant that they should not be ashamed of it, but that, if possible, it should stand the test of criticism, both as to matter and diction.

The movement of 1840 was necessarily transient and provisional, while underneath its clatter and nonsense was a real issue.

But as to slavery he seemed to have no conscience, regarding it as a matter of total moral indifference, and thus completely confounding the distinction between right and wrong.