Josiah Quincy: “But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement retrograde, before its final progress to…”

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

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.

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.