Josiah Quincy: “If I cannot hope to give satisfaction to my country, I am at least determined to have the approbation of my own…”

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

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.

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.

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