Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

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