William Seward: “Fellow-citizens: There are moments in the progress of time which are the counters of whole ages.”

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

Columbia, great Republic, thou art blest, While Empires droop, and Monarchs sink to rest.

Fellow-citizens: I will detain you no longer by this faint and feeble tribute to the illustrious dead.

She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all--she is the champion and vindicator only of her own.