George Julian: “They had suffered too much and too long in the battle for freedom to make merchandise of their convictions and sacrifice…”

Then ho! for March fourth, forty-one, boys, We'll shout till the heavens' arched blue Shall echo hard cider and fun, boys, Drink, drink, to old Tippecanoe.

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

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.

I not only meant that they should not be ashamed of it, but that, if possible, it should stand the test of criticism, both as to matter and diction.