A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Times change, and we change with them.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.