George Julian: “The spectacle was most pitiably humiliating, but I counted it an omen of progress.”

They thus undermine the morals of the people, and pave the way for violence and crime.

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

And the misfortune of this legislation is heightened by the probability of its continuance; for it is not easy to uproot a body of laws once accepted by a people, however mischievous in their character.

Something more than empty promises and windy declamation was necessary, and that something, in an evil hour, was supplied by the Democrats themselves.