But no sooner was John Tyler installed into the President's house than nullification, and Texas, and war with Mexico, rose again upon the surface, with eye steadily fixed upon the polar star of Southern slave-dealing supremacy in the government of the Union.
Quincy describes the resurgence of issues like nullification and Texas annexation under President Tyler, linking them to Southern interests.
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There is no absolute monarch on earth who is not compelled, by the constitution of his country, to receive the petitions of his people, whosoever they may be.
With a tolerable share of common sense, I hope, in America, to be independent and free.
It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.
The question raised by Martin Luther involved the whole theory of the rights of individual man, paramount to all human authority.
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