Man Wants But Little Here Below Nor

Duty Is Ours, Results Are God's.

This Mode Of Electioneering Suited Neither My Taste Nor My Principles. I Thought It Equally Unsuitable To My Personal Character And To The Station In Which I Am Placed.

Is It Not That In The Chain Of Human Events, The Birthday Of A Nation Is Indissolubly Linked With The Birthday Of The Savior? That It Forms A Leading Event In The Progress Of The Gospel Dispensation? Is It Not That The Declaration Of Independence First Organized The Social Compact On The Foundation Of The Redeemer’s Mission Upon Earth? That It Laid The Cornerstone Of Human Government Upon The First Precepts Of Christianity?

So Far As The Object Of Taxation Is To Raise A Revenue For Discharging The Debts And Defraying The Expenses Of The Community, Its Operation Should Be Adapted As Much As Possible To Suit The Burden With Equal Hand Upon All In Proportion With Their Ability Of Bearing It Without Oppression.

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.