Can there be any doubt as to the designs of the Radicals if they should be able to keep their hold on the reins of government?

They intend Congressional usurpation of all the branches and factions of the Government, to be enforced by the bayonet of a military despotism.

The Democrats had uniformly maintained that the right of suffrage was a question which came within the political power of the States and did not belong to National jurisdiction.

The essential and inestimable value of the Fourteenth Amendment still remains in the three other sections, and pre-eminently in the first section.

Laws are to govern all alike, --those opposed as well as those who favor them.

Indeed, in such case the honor of the nation demands investigation.

From this hour the popular current was clearly with the Republicans.

He is fair-minded towards his political opponents, generous to his friends, makes no compromise with enemies, never neglects his public duties, and never forgets the interests of the Democratic party.

He sought to captivate the popular imagination with a striking thought, and he supported it with the most minute and systematic work.

Every intelligent man knows that it is impossible to maintain a navy unless there be a commercial marine for the education of sailors.

It is a familiar adage requiring no enforcement of argument, that navies do not grow at the top.

It would abolish the art of ship-building on this side of the Atlantic, would educate no American sailor, except in the coasting trade.

The war of 1812 had satisfied Great Britain that she could gain nothing by going to war with the United States.

He was compelled to believe from the magnitude of the award, that considerations foreign to the questions submitted had been brought before the Arbitration.

Every American felt that under such circumstances it was better to pay than to be paid the five and a half million dollars.

They hold that a subordinate officer is stripped of his manhood by the consciousness that he may at any moment be removed at the whim or caprice of some one superior in station.

The struggle which this policy invites, nay which it enforces, is as much a moral as a political struggle.

The whole of Florida was ceded by Spain, an acquisition which proved of great value to us in every point of view.

Despite the eloquence and the great influence of the Speaker, the Southern representatives were overborne and the House adopted the anti-slavery restriction.

Clay realized that it was his position on the Texas question, as defined in the Raleigh letter, which was endangering his prestige in Kentucky.

The cause might seem inadequate, but the effect was undeniable.

Clay's speeches swayed listening senates and moved multitudes, but reading them is a disappointment.

He had gained great popularity in the South by his course in repealing the Missouri Compromise, but he had been visited with signal condemnation in the North.

He belonged to the past, the party was looking to the future.

The wonder excited by the raising of the vast army which saved the Union from destruction was even surpassed by the wonder excited by its prompt and peaceful dissolution.