The True Issue, and the Duty of the Whigs: An Address Before the Citizens of Cambridge, October 1, 1856

Excerpt from The True Issue, and the Duty of the Whigs: An Address Before the Citizens of Cambridge, October 1, 1856
Mr. President and Fellow-Citizens: -
Your kind greeting encourages the belief that you will permit me to say a few words in the first person singular. The effect of what I may say at this time, supposing it to have any effect, may depend very much upon the character in which I appear before you. But, for another and a different reason, let it be distinctly understood, that I do not, upon this occasion, represent the sentiments of any department of Harvard College, and am not here as the Royall Professor. Upon some of the topics upon which I may speak, it would have given me pleasure to have held a free conversation with my associates in the Law School, but I sedulously avoided it in order to make this disclaimer, and have no reason to suppose that they concur in my opinions, except a belief that the doctrine is sound, and that they, therefore, as wise men, must approve of it.
I come before you, then, as a citizen of Cambridge, a constitutional lawyer, if you please, and especially as a Whig; as one who has been a Whig since the formation of the Whig party; - withdrawn in a measure from ordinary political contests, but known as a Whig.
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