A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life