Religion, Charity, Pure Benevolence, And Morals, Mingled

The Influence Of Each Human Being On Others In This Life Is A Kind Of Immortality.

My Stern Chase After Time Is, To Borrow A Simile From Tom Paine, Like The Race Of A Man With A Wooden Leg After A Horse.

It Is No Slight Testimonial, Both To The Merit And Worth Of Christianity, That In All Ages Since Its Promulgation The Great Mass Of Those Who Have Risen To Eminence By Their Profound Wisdom And Integrity Have Recognized And Reverenced Jesus Of Nazareth As The Son Of The Living God.

The Origin Of The Political Relations Between The United States And France Is Coeval With The First Years Of Our Independence. The Memory Of It Is Interwoven With That Of Our Arduous Struggle For National Existence. Weakened As It Has Occasionally Been Since That Time, It Can By Us Never Be Forgotten, And We Should Hail With Exultation The Moment Which Should Indicate A Recollection Equally Friendly In Spirit On The Part Of France.

There Still Remains One Effort Of Magnanimity, One Sacrifice Of Prejudice And Passion, To Be Made By The Individuals Throughout The Nation Who Have Heretofore Followed The Standards Of Political Party. It Is That Of Discarding Every Remnant Of Rancor Against Each Other, Of Embracing As Countrymen And Friends, And Of Yielding To Talents And Virtue Alone That Confidence Which In Times Of Contention For Principle Was Bestowed Only Upon Those Who Bore The Badge Of Party Communion.