The Public History Of All Countries, And

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.

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

It Has Been My Custom For Many Years To Read The Bible In Its Entirety Once A Year

The Imagination Of A Eunuch Dwells More And Longer Upon The Material Of Love Than That Of Man Or Woman ... Supplying, So Far As He Can, By Speculation, The Place Of Pleasures He Can No Longer Enjoy.

The Conflict Between The Principle Of Liberty And The Fact Of Slavery Is Coming Gradually To An Issue. Slavery Has Now The Power, And Falls Into Convulsions At The Approach Of Freedom. That The Fall Of Slavery Is Predetermined In The Counsels Of Omnipotence I Cannot Doubt; It Is A Part Of The Great Moral Improvement In The Condition Of Man, Attested By All The Records Of History. But The Conflict Will Be Terrible, And The Progress Of Improvement Perhaps Retrograde Before Its Final Progress To Consummation.