Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.