George Julian: “While the issues of the war were retreating into the past the mercenary element of Republicanism had gradually secured…”

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

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

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.

The times are bad, and want curing; They are getting past all enduring; Let us turn out Martin Van Buren, And put in old Tippecanoe.