George F. Hoar: “The Treaty would have been defeated, not only lacking the needful two thirds, but by a majority of the Senate but for…”

We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.

We are here in the sweet silence of a summer morning, eighteen hundred years after such a scene, and able mentally to catch some glimpse of it; some echo of the storm that has left behind it so ineffaceable a mark.

This quaint old room, with its great oak beam overhead, and its kitchen grate wide enough to roast a deer--this strange blending of an hotel dining-room and a Court of Justice, has nevertheless a link with the far distant past more…

We bring you a more costly and precious gift than any jewel or diadem, though it came from an Emperor's treasury.