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

But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information of the people. In no country, is education so general - in no country, have the body of the people such a knowledge of the rights of men and the principles of government. This knowledge, joined with a keen sense of liberty and a watchful jealousy, will guard our constitutions and awaken the people to an instantaneous resistance of encroachments.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

There are two powers only which are sufficient to control men, and secure the rights of individuals and a peaceable administration; these are the combined force of religion and law, and the force or fear of the bayonet.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.