True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

The way to resumption is to resume.