Josiah Quincy: “The magnitude of the trust, and the extent of confidence bestowed in the committal of it, do but enlarge and aggravate…”

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.

He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.

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.