George Julian: “He was a man of undoubted bravery, and had made a most honorable record, both as a soldier and a civilian, upon ample…”

Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?

It was unrecognized by both parties, but it made its advent, and the men who pointed its way quietly served notice upon the country of their ulterior purposes.

The people took the work of politics into their own keeping, and the leaders became followers.

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.