A Republic Without Parties Is A Complete

There's Nothing Left . . . But To Get Drunk.

You Have Summoned Me In My Weakness. You Must Sustain Me In Your Strength.

Readily And, I Trust, Feelingly Acknowledge The Duty Incumbent On Us All . . . To Provide For Those Who, In The Mysterious Order Of Providence, Are Subject To Want And To Disease Of Body Or Mind; But I Cannot Find Any Authority In The Constitution For Making The Federal Government The Great Almoner Of Public Charity Throughout The United States . . . .

But Let Not The Foundation Of Our Hope Rest Upon Man's Wisdom. It Will Not Be Sufficient That Sectional Prejudices Find No Place In The Public Deliberations. It Will Not Be Sufficient That The Rash Counsels Of Human Passion Are Rejected. It Must Be Felt That There Is No National Security But In The Nation's Humble, Acknowledged Dependence Upon God And His Overruling Providence.

The Dangers Of A Concentration Of All Power In The General Government Of A Confederacy So Vast As Ours Are Too Obvious To Be Disregarded.