He had voted the Whig ticket once and the Democratic ticket once.

So he could not justly be charged with being an offensive partisan.

He had no experience in business except in a humble way and in that he had been unfortunate.

Congress and the President could only act under the restraint of a written Constitution.

Everything done by either must pass the ordeal of the Supreme Court, a majority of whose members then had no sympathy with a liberal interpretation of the National powers.