The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes.

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

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