My dislike of the President steadily increased, and his disgraceful conduct towards Sumner and alliance with Morton, Conkling, Cameron, and their associates rendered it morally impossible for me any longer to fight under his banner.
Julian articulates his increasing disdain for President Grant and his political alliances.
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Come ye who, whatever betide her, To Freedom have sworn to be true, Prime up with a cup of hard cider, And drink to old Tippecanoe.
The people took the work of politics into their own keeping, and the leaders became followers.
No sophistry could disguise this fact, nor could its significance be overstated.
The movement of 1840 was necessarily transient and provisional, while underneath its clatter and nonsense was a real issue.
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