If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffuse…

The Administration asserts the right to fill the ranks of the regular army by compulsion...Is this, sir, consistent with the character of a free government? Is…