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In The American Hemisphere The Cause Of Freedom And Independence Has Continued To Prevail, And If Signalized By None Of Those Splendid Triumphs Which Had Crowned With Glory Some Of The Preceding Years It Has Only Been From The Banishment Of All External Force Against Which The Struggle Had Been Maintained. The Shout Of Victory Has Been Superseded By The Expulsion Of The Enemy Over Whom It Could Have Been Achieved.

So Great Is My Veneration For The Bible That The Earlier My Children Begin To Read It The More Confident Will Be My Hope That They Will Prove Useful Citizens Of Their Country And Respectable Members Of Society. I Have For Many Years Made It A Practice To Read Through The Bible Once Every Year.

Where Annual Elections End Where Slavery Begins.

The Great Interests Of An Agricultural, Commercial, And Manufacturing Nation Are So Linked In Union Together That No Permanent Cause Of Prosperity To One Of Them Can Operate Without Extending Its Influence To The Others. All These Interests Are Alike Under The Protecting Power Of The Legislative Authority, And The Duties Of The Representative Bodies Are To Conciliate Them In Harmony Together.

Our Political Way Of Life Is By The Laws Of Nature And Of Nature's God, And Of Course Presupposes The Existence Of God, The Moral Ruler Of The Universe, And A Rule Of Right And Wrong, Of Just And Unjust, Binding Upon Man, Preceding All Institutions Of Human Society And Government.