The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs. And it has been the peculiar wisdom and felicity of our Constitution, to have provided this peaceable appeal, where that of other nations is at once to force.

If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.

Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.