In defense of the treaties, it may be stated that they will continentalize the Monroe doctrine, that in a case like that cited above, all the Americas will unite to drive out the intruder.

The Legislative department derives a superiority in our Governments from other circumstances. Its constitutional powers being at once more extensive, and less susceptible of precise limits, it can, with the greater facility, mask, under complicated and indirect measures, the encroachments which it makes on the coördinate departments.

Later, during an evening concert, Lomax was discussing a group of former convicts who were chopping wood and hoeing in time to world songs.

[…] this practice of impropriation, which was first set on foot by unjust and sacrilegious bulls from Rome, is justly offensive both to God and good men; as misderiving the well-meant devotions of charitable and pious souls into a wrong channel.