We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.

Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.