"If in less than a half century after the event, the trend of political power towards centralization in the Federal government, and in like proportion has minimized the powers and influence of the States and people, it requires no great stretch of prophetic opinion to say what the next half century will bring forth, and how wise and far-seeing the statesman and publicist were who struggled against such a tendency."
[from Gen. Butler's speech at the dedication of the statue of Gen. Wade Hampton at the S.C. Capitol]