Immoral Laws Are Doubtless Void, And Should

Every Step Of Progress The World Has Made Has Been From Scaffold To Scaffold, And From Stake To Stake.

A Large Body Of People, Sufficient To Make A Nation, Have Come To The Conclusion That They Will Have A Government Of A Certain Form. Who Denies Them The Right? Standing With The Principles Of '76 Behind Us, Who Can Deny Them The Right? ... I Maintain On The Principles Of '76 That Abraham Lincoln Has No Right To A Soldier In Fort Sumter. ... You Can Never Make Such A War Popular. ... The North Never Will Endorse Such A War.

The Reformer Is Careless Of Numbers, Disregards Popularity, And Deals Only With Ideas, Conscience, And Common Sense. He Feels, With Copernicus, That As God Waited Long For An Interpreter, So He Can Wait For His Followers.

Eternal Vigilance Is The Price Of Liberty; Power Is Ever Stealing From The Many To The Few. The Manna Of Popular Liberty Must Be Gathered Each Day Or It Is Rotten. The Living Sap Of Today Outgrows The Dead Rind Of Yesterday. The Hand Entrusted With Power Becomes, Either Form Human Depravity Or Esprit De Corps, The Necessary Enemy Of The People. Only By Continued Oversight Can The Democrat In Office Be Prevented From Hardening Into A Despot; Only By Unintermitted Agitation Can A People Be Sufficiently Awake To Principle Not To Let Liberty Be Smothered In Material Prosperity.

The Paleontological Evidence Before Us Today Clearly Demonstrates Ordered Progressive Change With The Successive Development Of New Faunal And Floral Assemblages Through The Changing Epochs Of Our Earth's History. There Should Be No Real Conflict Between Science, Which Is The Search For Truth, And Christ's Teachings, Which I Hold To Be Truth Itself. It Is Only When Scientists Remove God From Creation That The Christian Is Faced With An Irreconcilable Situation.