The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

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

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.