William Seward: “Nevertheless, the republican cause, however odious in Europe, was our national cause.”

Now is the time to exterminate that monster, called party spirit.

But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

But the people of France, shut up in darkness during centuries of misrule, passed at a step from abject servitude to unlimited freedom.

I still hold the same opinions; and, although highly respecting the purity of intention of those who object, on constitutional grounds, to the exercise of this power, it is with heartfelt satisfaction that I perceive those objections…