George Julian: “It was, moreover, a question of national honor and gratitude, from which no escape was morally possible.”

But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.

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

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.

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.