George Boutwell: “No State shall make any law impairing the obligation of contracts.”

Of all the eminent men that you have sent forth into the service of the State and the country, he must be accounted the chief, when we consider the value of his contribution, historically, and on the side of freedom and civilization.

Shall your representative stand for Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln and Freedom, or for William McKinley and Despotism?

They assert supreme authority over their fellow-men for an indefinite period of time, and they promise therewith good government.

Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.