George Julian: “Our Civil Service was becoming a system of political prostitution.”

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.

Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?

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

He was the most conspicuous public rascal of his time, but was far from being alone in his odious notoriety.