The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.