Adlai Stevenson: “There is neither rank, nor station, nor prerogative, in the republic of the grave.”

From the establishment of the Government the question of human slavery was the one perilous question,--the one constant menace to national unity, until its final extinction amid the flames of war.

In the presence of such majestic power we can only stand awed and silent.

What page in our history tells of deeds so fraught with blessings to the generations of men as the discovery of America?

Irishmen, in common with liberty-loving men everywhere, looked with abhorrence upon the attempt of a great European power to establish monarchy upon the ruins of republics.