It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

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

That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

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

Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the choice would be less likely to be diverted from him, by the intrigues of the ambitious, or the bribes of the rich.

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.