George Julian: “I could not aid in the re-election of Grant without sinning against decency and my own self-respect.”

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.

The system of public plunder inaugurated by Jackson was in full blast, and an organized effort to reform it was the real need of the hour; but here was the weak point of the Whigs.

It was a confession of Congressional incompetence to deal with a problem which Congress alone had the right to solve.

Such a state of affairs is worse than pestilence or famine; but the evil of uncertain titles puts on new and very aggravated forms in our gold-bearing regions.