George Julian: “To sleep over its grand opportunity was as stupid as it was criminal.”

He was a man of undoubted bravery, and had made a most honorable record, both as a soldier and a civilian, upon ample trial in both capacities.

In the light of this fact alone, it is impossible to account for the perfectly unbounded and irrepressible enthusiasm which swept over the land during the campaign, and so signally routed the forces of Democracy.

It was hollow and false, and the best men in the party felt it.

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