George Julian: “Loyalty to Republicanism was not only accepted as the best evidence of loyalty to the country, but of fitness for civil…”

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

The efforts to belittle his merits and defile his good name became systematic, and degenerated into the most unpardonable personal abuse and political defamation.

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.

They scourge the mining States and Territories with the unspeakable curse of uncertainty of land titles, as everywhere attested by incurable litigation and strife.