The new government, soon to be placed on trial, needed the help of sympathetic governors and legislatures, and Clinton and his supporters, forced to accept the Constitution, could hardly be regarded as its wisest and safest guardians.
This statement critiques the reliability of certain political leaders in supporting the new government under the Constitution.
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No, Sirs! we know very little of the art of war, and General Scott a great deal.
Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
The absence of violent democratic innovations was the Constitution's remarkable feature.
The heart of the country is fixed on higher and nobler things.
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