Josiah Quincy: “I disdain the ignoble warfare, and neither wage it myself or encourage it in my friends.”

May the Ruler of the universe preserve you from such degradation! 'Freedom!

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.

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

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.