George Julian: “They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.”

Moreover, men absorbed in a feverish and hazardous industry, and stimulated by the hope of sudden wealth, are not disposed to consider the advantages of permanent ownership and security of title.

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.

The movement of 1840 was necessarily transient and provisional, while underneath its clatter and nonsense was a real issue.

It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.