The Sermon On The Mount Commands Me

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.

All The Public Business In Congress Now Connects Itself With Intrigues, And There Is Great Danger That The Whole Government Will Degenerate Into A Struggle Of Cabals.

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

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.

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.