Slavery Is The Great And Foul Stain

Idleness Is Sweet, And Its Consequences Are Cruel.

Whether To The Nation Or To The State, No Service Can Be Or Ever Will Be Rendered By A More Able Or A More Faithful Public Servant.

In Charity To All Mankind, Bearing No Malice Or Ill Will To Any Human Being, And Even Compassionating Those Who Hold In Bondage Their Fellow Men, Not Knowing What They Do.

In What Light Soever We Regard The Bible, Whether With Reference To Revelation, To History, Or To Morality, It Is An Invaluable And Inexhaustible Mine Of Knowledge And Virtue.

The Public History Of All Countries, And All Ages, Is But A Sort Of Mask, Richly Colored. The Interior Working Of The Machinery Must Be Foul.