Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.