The Hope Of A Christian Is Inseparable

The Mere Title Of Lawyer Is Sufficient To Deprive A Man Of The Public Confidence. ... The Most Innocent And Irreproachable Life Cannot Guard A Lawyer Against The Hatred Of His Fellow Citizens.

Religious Discord Has Lost Her Sting; The Cumbrous Weapons Of Theological Warfare Are Antiquated: The Field Of Politics Supplies The Alchymists Of Our Times With Materials Of More Fatal Explosion, And The Butchers Of Mankind No Longer Travel To Another World For Instruments Of Cruelty And Destruction.

The Magistrate Is The Servant Not Of His Own Desires, Not Even Of The People, But Of His God

Slavery Is The Great And Foul Stain Upon The North American Union. A Dissolution, At Least Temporary, Of The Union, As Now Constituted, Would Now Be Certainly Necessary. The Union Might Then Be Reorganized On The Fundamental Principle Of Emancipation.

America Does Not Go Abroad In Search Of Monsters To Destroy. She Is The Well-wisher To The Freedom And Independence Of All. She Well Knows That By Enlisting Under Other Banners Than Her Own, Were They Even The Banners Of Foreign Independence, She Would Involve Herself Beyond The Power Of Extrication In All The Wars Of Interest And Intrigue, Of Individual Avarice, Envy And Ambition, Which Assume The Colors And Usurp The Standards Of Freedom.