There Is Nothing So Deep And Nothing

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.

However Tiresome To Others, The Most Indefatigable Orator Is Never Tedious To Himself. The Sound Of His Own Voice Never Loses Its Harmony To His Own Ear; And Among The Delusions, Which Self-love Is Ever Assiduous In Attempting To Pass Upon Virtue, He Fancies Himself To Be Sounding The Sweetest Tones

Is It Not That In The Chain Of Human Events, The Birthday Of A Nation Is Indissolubly Linked With The Birthday Of The Savior? That It Forms A Leading Event In The Progress Of The Gospel Dispensation? Is It Not That The Declaration Of Independence First Organized The Social Compact On The Foundation Of The Redeemer’s Mission Upon Earth? That It Laid The Cornerstone Of Human Government Upon The First Precepts Of Christianity?

And May That Being Who Is Supreme Over All, The Patron Of Order, The Fountain Of Justice, And The Protector, In All Ages Of The World, Of Virtuous Liberty, Continue His Blessing Upon This Nation And Its Government, And Give It All Possible Success And Duration, Consistent With The Ends Of His Providence.

The Law Given From Sinai Was A Civil And Municipal As Well As A Moral And Religious Code.