Josiah Quincy: “My business is to serve the public to the best of my abilities in the station assigned to me, and not to intrigue for my…”

The charge, therefore, that our government did really give up that important territory, when it was at its option to retain it, is purely and unqualifiedly untrue; and I now charge that it was known by Mr.

They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.

Though conscious, being then in his seventy-eighth year, that he stood on the threshold of human life, he sought no relaxation from duty, no exemption from its performance.

May the Ruler of the universe preserve you from such degradation! 'Freedom!