...the proclamations and confiscations, which dispense with the Constitution. [Applause.] If we are to take their own account of themselves, as, for instance, when garnished with the rhetoric of Bancroft , one night inter that they deserved the eulogy of Macaulay, and that every potty presbyter was the vicegerent of the Most High, specially anointed to reproach mankind with its short-comings--[Laughte...