Adlai Stevenson: “My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten.”

We, the heirs of all the ages, in the plenitude of our enjoyments, and the prodigality of the favors showered upon us, hail Columbus our benefactor.

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform!

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.

The practical lesson to be drawn, one for all the ages, is the peril involved in a wife's untimely interruption of the wise observations and sage reflections of her husband.