We Know The Redemption Must Come.

A Stranger Would Think That The People Of The United States Had No Other Occupation Than Electioneering.

It Is Essential..that You Should Form And Adopt Certain Rules Or Principles, For The Government Of Your Own Conduct And Temper. Unless You Have Such Rules And Principles, There Will Be Numberless Occasions On Which You Will Have No Guide For Your Government But Your Passions..it Is In The Bible, You Must Learn Them, And From The Bible How To Practice Them.

If There Have Been Those Who Doubted Whether A Confederated Representative Democracy Were A Government Competent To The Wise And Orderly Management Of The Common Concerns Of A Mighty Nation, Those Doubts Have Been Dispelled.

My Stern Chase After Time Is, To Borrow A Simile From Tom Paine, Like The Race Of A Man With A Wooden Leg After A Horse.

There Still Remains One Effort Of Magnanimity, One Sacrifice Of Prejudice And Passion, To Be Made By The Individuals Throughout The Nation Who Have Heretofore Followed The Standards Of Political Party. It Is That Of Discarding Every Remnant Of Rancor Against Each Other, Of Embracing As Countrymen And Friends, And Of Yielding To Talents And Virtue Alone That Confidence Which In Times Of Contention For Principle Was Bestowed Only Upon Those Who Bore The Badge Of Party Communion.