Josiah Quincy: “Yet a man qualified for the duties of chief magistrate of ten millions of people should be a man proof alike to…”

The argument for the annexation, or reännexation, of Texas is as gross an imposture as ever was palmed upon the credulity of an honest people.

Adams replied: "I have no hesitation to say I hold that act unconstitutional and void.

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

Union!' be this the watchword of your camp; and if Ate, hot from hell, will come and cry 'Havoc!' fight--fight and conquer, under the banner of universal freedom.