The lobbyist is not seen in the Committee Room or the Corridor of the Capitol, as was the case when I entered Congress in 1869.

I ought perhaps to say that I think the acquittal of Belknap on the ground that the Senate has no jurisdiction to render judgment against a civil officer on process of impeachment after he has left office, was influenced by political…

I do not think most of the Republican Senators who voted that way would have so voted if the culprit had been a Democrat.

The wicked and fraudulent character of the transactions is shown in the report.

It was never thought that the Secretary himself profited corruptly by the transaction, but only that he had suffered himself to be hoodwinked.

In the presence of the great reconciler, Death, ordinary human contentions and angers should be hushed.

But if there be such a thing in the universe as a moral law, if the distinction between right and wrong be other than fancy or a dream, the difference between General Butler and the men who contended with him belongs not to this life alone.

It enters into the fate of republics, and will endure after the fashion of this world passeth away.

History deals with Benedict Arnold, with Aaron Burr, with the evil counsellors of Charles I. and Charles II., with Robespierre, with Barere and with Catiline, upon their merits, and draws from their lives examples, or warnings, without…

This especially is a duty to be performed fearlessly, though with due caution, when it is proposed in some quarters to erect monuments of statues to such men for the admiration of the youth of future generations.

A breach of trust by a delegate to a nominating convention is an act of dishonor of the same class with that to which no presidential elector in the United States has yet stooped-- a breach of trust by an elector.

He had a gift of clear, racy and simple speech.

He could convey his thought to the apprehension of common men without any loss in the process.

His style was of the same class with that of William Cobbett and Horace Greeley, without ornament, not very copious, but simple, clear and vigorous.

As well refer twenty-seven babies to their twenty-seven mothers to decide which is the prettiest," exclaimed Butler.

The scandal became so great that Governor Andrew--than whom there was never a truer, nobler, braver or more upright man in the executive chair of any State in this country--was compelled to put on public record his indignant denunciation.

It is a doubtful and debated question whether General Butler was personally to blame for this terrible and disgraceful repulse.

But I mean the fear of the ordinary risks which accompany every bold and successful operation in war.

This timidity is not infrequently, as it was in this case, characteristic of men who thrust themselves into places for which they are not fit.

Had the army made a show of surrounding it, it would have been ours; but nothing of the kind was done.

There never was a fort that invited soldiers to walk in and take possession more plainly than Fort Fisher . . . .

I do this with reluctance, but the good of the service requires it.

In my absence General Butler necessarily commands, and there is a lack of confidence felt in his military ability, making him an unsafe commander for a large army.

There is no country in the world, other than ours, where an officer guilty of such conduct, whether it came from incapacity or cowardice, would not have been promptly cashiered and probably shot.

He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.