George Julian: “I made it with many keen pangs of regret, for the history of the party had been honorable and glorious, and I had shared…”

No sophistry could disguise this fact, nor could its significance be overstated.

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

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.

He was unquestionably honest and patriotic, and the fact that he was a poor man, and a plain farmer of the West, could properly form no objection to his character or his fitness for the Presidency.