America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.