Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 123.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 136.

The march of the human mind is slow.[408:3]

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 149.

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All government,—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,—is founded on compromise and barter.

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 169.

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll. Vol. ii. p. 420.