If we may trust the traditions that have come down from the time of the Administrations of Washington and Adams, when the Senate sat with closed doors, none of them ever acquired the authority wielded by the profound sagacity of Ellsworth.
Hoar discusses the historical authority of the Senate, referencing its closed-door sessions during Washington and Adams' administrations.
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This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
It relates to matters more permanent than human life.
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