It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which, in times of contention for principle, was bestowed only on those who bore the badge of party communion.
Quincy advocates for unity and mutual respect among political opponents.
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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!
They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.
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.
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