The Magistrate Is The Servant Not Of

A Gentleman Of One Of The First Fortunes Upon The Continent...sacrificing His Ease, And Hazarding All In The Cause Of His Country.

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.

Idleness Is Sweet, And Its Consequences Are Cruel.

No Book In The World Deserves To Be So Unceasingly Studied, And So Profoundly Meditated Upon As The Bible.

The Great Interests Of An Agricultural, Commercial, And Manufacturing Nation Are So Linked In Union Together That No Permanent Cause Of Prosperity To One Of Them Can Operate Without Extending Its Influence To The Others. All These Interests Are Alike Under The Protecting Power Of The Legislative Authority, And The Duties Of The Representative Bodies Are To Conciliate Them In Harmony Together.