[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided upon a number, than when it is to fall singly upon one. A spirit of faction . . . will often hurry the persons of whom they were composed into improprieties and excesses for which they would blush in a private capacity.

The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses.

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly federal and partly consolidated, and who would convert ours into one either wholly federal or wholly consolidated, in neither of which forms have individual rights, public order, and external safety, been all duly maintained, they aim a deadly blow at the last hope of true liberty on the face of the Earth.

Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.