Josiah Quincy: “And, if we go to war with Great Britain to-morrow, she will make us, as one of the conditions of peace, pay our whole…”

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

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.

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.

He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.