Josiah Quincy: “We lived in a republican country, in an armed nation; and he would rather take this nation as it was than the most…”

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.

Texas and slavery are interwoven in every banner floating on the Democratic breeze. 'Freedom or death' should be inscribed on ours.

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

His spirit of liberty was fostered and inspired by the writings of Milton, Sydney, and Locke, of which the American Declaration of Independence was an emanation, and the constitution of the United States, with the exception of the clauses…