Adlai Stevenson: “Speaker, our watch-dog of the Treasury, like all other good watch-dogs, never barks when his friends are around!”

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 advocacy, however, of what he believed to be for the public weal, 'he took counsel ever of his courage, never of his fears.' That he possessed the ability to have acquitted himself with honor in responsible positions of public…

Judgment and prudence should be mixed in equal parts with love and affection in the transaction, to secure a lasting and happy union.

To this man, more than to any other, are we indebted for the supreme fact that ninety millions of people are at this hour, in the loftiest sense of the expression, fellow-citizens of a common country.