George Julian: “It would be to follow the Governments of the Old World, which reserve their mineral lands for the Crown, because they…”

Its prizes are often rich and suddenly gained, and when they are sought through the forms of a law which compels a man to choose between an expensive and hazardous litigation and robbery, human nature is severely tried.

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.

Come ye who, whatever betide her, To Freedom have sworn to be true, Prime up with a cup of hard cider, And drink to old Tippecanoe.

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