We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.