George Julian: “But another conspiracy against freedom was now hatched; and if the Senate had strangled the Wilmot proviso, it was…”

It is not a mistake merely, but a great misfortune, that our laws touching so delicate and vital a question as the ownership and transfer of mineral lands were not so framed as to avert these frightful evils.

It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.

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

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.