The difference between the two is as wide as between the sky and the earth.

If the Senator from Massachusetts says, that in doubtful cases it is the duty of a court, or the duty of the Senate, or the duty of any public officer, to consider the Declaration of Independence, he is right.

The point is, that the Senator treats the Declaration of Independence as no better than the writings of Washington, of Jefferson, of Madison, “The Federalist,” and everything that pertains to that day.

So long as they are denied you will have the colored people justly complaining and knocking at your doors,--and may I say, so long as I remain in this Chamber you will have me perpetually demanding their rights.

Is it not a wrong which ought to ring through the land?

What I propose is a searching inquiry, according to the magnitude of the interests involved, to ascertain if this is without just grounds.

Everybody says there must be reform, so that the Government in all its branches shall be above suspicion.

Who else could need arms and war material to the amount of four million dollars at once?

In calling it fraudulent he was not deterred by the petty cry of a false patriotism, that his judgment might affect the good name of our country.

There it is, the very apple of the eye to Boston; and nobody now fears that it will be diminished by a foot.

Once country was the object, and not a man; once principle was inscribed on the victorious banners, and not a name only.

So prone are they to suspicion, that, where a President appoints a relation of his own, however worthy, they will believe that favor, and not merit, was the motive.

It is impossible to deny the soundness of this requirement and its completeness as an answer to one of the apologies.

But now this degrading rule is extended, and we are told that to the President’s family belong the spoils.

But is it not for the public good that they should be excluded?

Better always a government of law than of men.

The attempt to change the character of the Republican Party begins by assault on the principle of One Term for President.

Some nations are governed by the sword,--in other words, by central force commanding obedience.

Especially was I moved when I saw the indignity to the colored race, which was accomplished by trampling upon a fundamental principle of International Law, declaring the equality of nations, as our Declaration of Independence declares the…

President Grant, who could lobby so assiduously for his San Domingo scheme, full of wrong to the colored race, could do nothing for this beneficent measure.

Let him cut adrift from managers who would wield him merely as a political force, with little regard to his own good, and bravely stand by the candidate who has stood by him.

It is a victory of ideas, without which all other victories must fail.

Men will not mingle their sweat with the soil, becoming colaborers with the sun,--they will not sow and plough,--unless assured in the enjoyment of what the generous earth is ready to yield.

Let any of these be in any peril, let any shadow rest upon their enjoyment, and the whole community must suffer.

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.