... political subjects, is occasionally pulled out of bed, and carried down to the House of Commons in a chair, to vote for the Whigs in an emergency. The Bradford reformers, however, have persuaded nobody, and frightened nobody. It has been found out that ...

... faction was a question of life or death. The people of the South could, without immediate danger, have submitted themselves Whig or a Democratic Government; but the advent of a Republican President was the outlawry of the fifteen slave States. Thenceforth ...