Josiah Quincy: “Adams remarked: "I have observed the tendency of our elections to venality, and shall not encourage it.”

The spirit of freedom and the spirit of slavery are drawing together for the deadly conflict of arms.

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.

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

Union!' be this the watchword of your camp; and if Ate, hot from hell, will come and cry 'Havoc!' fight--fight and conquer, under the banner of universal freedom.