A Stout Heart, A Clear Conscience, And

The Conflict Between The Principle Of Liberty And The Fact Of Slavery Is Coming Gradually To An Issue. Slavery Has Now The Power, And Falls Into Convulsions At The Approach Of Freedom. That The Fall Of Slavery Is Predetermined In The Counsels Of Omnipotence I Cannot Doubt; It Is A Part Of The Great Moral Improvement In The Condition Of Man, Attested By All The Records Of History. But The Conflict Will Be Terrible, And The Progress Of Improvement Perhaps Retrograde Before Its Final Progress To Consummation.

What Is The Right Of The Huntsman To The Forest Of A Thousand Miles Over Which He Has Accidentally Ranged In Quest Of Prey? Shall The Fields And Vallies, Which A Beneficent God Has Formed To Teem With The Life Of Innumerable Multitudes, Be Condemned To Everlasting Barrenness?

The Freedom Of The Press Should Be Inviolate.

Westward The Star Of Empire Takes Its Way.

Man Wants But Little Here Below Nor Wants That Little Long, 'tis Not With Me Exactly So; But 'tis So In The Song. My Wants Are Many, And, If Told, Would Muster Many A Score; And Were Each Wish A Mint Of Gold, I Still Should Long For More.