The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.