The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.