I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.