The Laws Of Man May Bind Him

Our Constitution Professedly Rests Upon The Good Sense And Attachment Of The People. This Basis, Weak As It May Appear, Has Not Yet Been Found To Fail.

The Inconsistency Of The Institution Of Domestic Slavery With The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Was Seen And Lamented . . . No Insincerity Or Hypocrisy Can Be Fairly Laid To Their Charge. Never From Their Lips Was Heard One Syllable Of Attempt To Justify The Institution Of Slavery. They Universally Considered It As A Reproach Fastened Upon Them By The Unnatural Step-mother Country And They Saw That Before The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Slavery, In Common With Every Other Mode Of Oppression, Was Destined Sooner Or Later To Be Banished From The Earth.

The Barbarian Chieftain, Who Defended His Country Against The Roman Invasion, Driven To The Remotest Extremity Of Britain, And Stimulating His Followers To Battle, By All That Has Power Of Persuasion Upon The Human Heart, Concludes His Exhortation By An Appeal To These Irresistible Feelings - "think Of Your Forefathers And Of Your Posterity."

[i Believe In The] Rebuilding Of Judea As An Independent Nation.

Wherever The Standard Of Freedom And Independence Has Been Or Shall Be Unfurled, There Will Be America's Heart, Her Benedictions And Her Prayers.