The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side-posts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on; he takes his victims from the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, and the cottage of the poor and lowly.

I am for peace, retrenchment, and for reform-thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.

We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and th…

The right honorable gentleman is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in…

Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor p…