These are illustrious names; but there is nothing in them to eclipse the simple life of our President, whose example, commemorated by history and by song, will be the pride of humanity and a rebuke to every usurper.

The motive of his conduct was higher than success,--as devotion to Human Rights is higher than genius or power, as man is higher than aught else on earth.

Without ancestry or rank, he rose to the loftiest power, and, when on these heights, never dissembled the humility of his origin.

It belongs to the fame of our President that in selections for the public service he forgot all personal differences.

Capacity and devotion to the country were controlling recommendations, before which every thought of opposition or rivalry, or even of injury, disappeared.

Through him a barbarous institution was overthrown, and France advanced in civilization.

The Trial by Battle, against which he launched a noble ordinance, was a curse not inferior to our Slavery.

In an age of privilege, and wearing a crown, he was moved to the practice of Equality.

History recalls with undisguised applause the simple justice he delighted to administer, sitting under an oak in the park of Vincennes.

Reverently we acknowledge the finger of the Almighty, and pray that our great trials may not fail, to the end that the promises of the Fathers may be fulfilled,--those promises, so great and glorious, which make the Declaration a…

It is Slavery that has taken the life of our beloved Chief Magistrate; and here is another triumph of its Barbarism.

Spare, if you please, the worm it employs; but do not, I entreat you, yield amnesty to this murderous wickedness.

And not only Slavery, which is another name for property in man, but also that other pretension, not less irrational and hateful, that Human Rights can depend on color.

The people where the kindred tyranny of Caste once prevailed will rejoice that this fell under the same blow.

They will yet confess that it was dealt in no harshness, in no unkindness, in no desire to humiliate, but simply and solemnly, in the name of the Republic and of Human Nature, for their good as well as ours,--ay, for their good more than…

By ideas, more than by armies, we have conquered.

But if the ideas giving us the victory are now neglected, if the pledges of the Declaration, which the Rebellion openly assailed, are left unredeemed, then have blood and treasure been lavished for nought.

Alas for the dead who gave themselves so bravely to their country, alas for the living left to mourn the dead, if any relic of Slavery is allowed to continue!--especially if this bloody imposture, defeated in the pretension of property in…

A mistake now is worse than the loss of a battle.

All hail to the genius of Universal Emancipation!

All hail to the Union, victorious over the Rebellion,--victorious, also, over a Usurpation which menaces the unity of the Republic!

Will the Senate act blindfold, or with eyes open?

It will be the duty of the Committee, as my friend from Michigan suggests, to consider, in the first place, whether a State in armed rebellion, like Virginia, can have Senators on this floor.

I say, Sir, I do not mean to prejudge these questions; but I do insist that a measure of this importance shall not be acted on without due consideration, and in absolute indifference to facts staring us in the face, glaring upon us every…

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That Congress hereby declares that the Rebel debt or loan is simply an agency of the Rebellion, which the United States can never, under any circumstances, recognize in any…