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The American War Is Over; But This Far From Being The Case With The American Revolution. On The Contrary, Nothing But The First Act Of The Drama Is Closed. It Remains Yet To Establish And Perfect Our New Forms Of Government, And To Prepare The Principles, Morals, And Manners Of Our Citizens For These Forms Of Government After They Are Established And Brought To Perfection.

In Such A Performance You May Lay The Foundation Of National Happiness Only In Religion, Not By Leaving It Doubtful "whether Morals Can Exist Without It," But By Asserting That Without Religion Morals Are The Effects Of Causes As Purely Physical As Pleasant Breezes And Fruitful Seasons.

We Have Not Only Multiplied Diseases, But We Have Made Them More Fatal.

I Grant This Mode Of Secluding Boys From The Intercourse Of Private Families Has A Tendency To Make Them Scholars, But Our Business Is To Make Them Men, Citizens, And Christians. The Vices Of Young People Are Generally Learned From Each Other. The Vices Of Adults Seldom Infect Them. By Separating Them From Each Other, Therefore, In Their Hours Of Relaxation From Study, We Secure Their Morals From A Principal Source Of Corruption, While We Improve Their Manners By Subjecting Them To Those Restraints Which The Difference Of Age And Sex Naturally Produce In Private Families.

Unless We Put Medical Freedom Into The Constitution, The Time Will Come When Medicine Will Organize Into An Undercover Dictatorship To Restrict The Art Of Healing To One Class Of Men And Deny Equal Privileges To Others; The Constitution Of The Republic Should Make A Special Privilege For Medical Freedoms As Well As Religious Freedom.