In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate governments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

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

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

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

The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.