Duty Is Ours, Results Are God's.

There Is In The Clergy Of All Christian Denominations A Time-serving, Cringing, Subservient Morality, As Wide From The Spirit Of The Gospel As It Is From The Intrepid Assertion And Vindication Of Truth.

Whenever Vanity And Gaiety, A Love Of Pomp And Dress, Furniture, Equipage, Buildings, Great Company, Expensive Diversions, And Elegant Entertainments Get The Better Of The Principles And Judgments Of Men And Women, There Is No Knowing Where They Will Stop, Nor Into What Evils, Natural, Moral, Or Political, They Will Lead Us.

America, With The Same Voice Which Spoke Herself Into Existence As A Nation, Proclaimed To Mankind The Inextinguishable Rights Of Human Nature, And The Only Lawful Foundations Of Government.

The Harmony Of The Nation Is Promoted And The Whole Union Is Knit Together By The Sentiments Of Mutual Respect, The Habits Of Social Intercourse, And The Ties Of Personal Friendship Formed Between The Representatives Of Its Several Parts In The Performance Of Their Service At This Metropolis.

The Inconsistency Of The Institution Of Domestic Slavery With The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Was Seen And Lamented . . . No Insincerity Or Hypocrisy Can Be Fairly Laid To Their Charge. Never From Their Lips Was Heard One Syllable Of Attempt To Justify The Institution Of Slavery. They Universally Considered It As A Reproach Fastened Upon Them By The Unnatural Step-mother Country And They Saw That Before The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Slavery, In Common With Every Other Mode Of Oppression, Was Destined Sooner Or Later To Be Banished From The Earth.