Try And Fail,but Don't Fail To Try.

Let Us Not Be Unmindful That Liberty Is Power, That The Nation Blessed With The Largest Portion Of Liberty Must In Proportion To Its Numbers Be The Most Powerful Nation Upon Earth. 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. Always Vote For A Principle, Though You Vote Alone, And You May Cherish The Sweet Reflection That Your Vote Is Never Lost. America, In The Assembly Of Nations, Has Uniformly Spoken Among Them The Language Of Equal Liberty, Equal Justice, And Equal Rights.

America Does Not Go Abroad In Search Of Monsters To Destroy. She Is The Well-wisher To The Freedom And Independence Of All. She Well Knows That By Enlisting Under Other Banners Than Her Own, Were They Even The Banners Of Foreign Independence, She Would Involve Herself Beyond The Power Of Extrication In All The Wars Of Interest And Intrigue, Of Individual Avarice, Envy And Ambition, Which Assume The Colors And Usurp The Standards Of Freedom.

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?

Slavery Is The Great And Foul Stain Upon The North American Union. A Dissolution, At Least Temporary, Of The Union, As Now Constituted, Would Now Be Certainly Necessary. The Union Might Then Be Reorganized On The Fundamental Principle Of Emancipation.

Individual Liberty Is Individual Power, And As The Power Of A Community Is A Mass Compounded Of Individual Powers, The Nation Which Enjoys The Most Freedom Must Necessarily Be In Proportion To Its Numbers The Most Powerful Nation.