On the record
The people of the North still support by their suffrages the men who have truckled to Southern domination.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Quincy expresses his discontent with Northern politicians who support Southern interests at the expense of their constituents.
Share
More from Josiah Quincy
Adams remarked: "He has all the contracted prejudices of that political sect; his whole system of government is comprised in the maxim of leaving money in the pockets of the people.
This error has nowhere been more frequently repeated, nowhere been of more pernicious tendency, than in America itself.
No man can be surprised that such a cause was swept away by a moral and political whirlwind; that it carried with it all the institutions of civil society, so that its march was a wild desolation.
If there is a Bostonian who ever sailed from his own harbor for distant lands, or returned to it from them, without feelings, at the sight of the Blue Hills, which he is unable to express, his heart is differently constituted from mine.
Other voices in this conversation
