How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment.

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.