There is no argument for the army and navy--ay, Sir, for the present support of the Lieutenant-General of the United States, in the field at the head of our military forces--which at this moment is not equally applicable to the support of the Secretary of the Treasury at the head of our financial forces.
Sumner argues that support for financial leaders should be as robust as that for military leaders.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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