Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.