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.

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.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money!

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

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