It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

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

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.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.