Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.