On the record
I have referred also to Weed's reading me out of the Whig party--my crime being, in this as in some other things, that of doing to-day what more politic persons will not be ready to do till to-morrow.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Alexander reflects on being excluded from the Whig party for taking timely actions that others avoided.
Share
More from De Alexander
Gerrit Smith was a noble example of the champions of freedom.
Its attitude was strong, defiant, and its only purpose apparently was to create a public sentiment hostile to the extension of slavery.
Gross and unfounded charges of fraud are made by them against those high in authority.
If Joel Weed lived as a beggar, Thurlow thought as a king.
Other voices in this conversation
