We tax our ingenuity to draw nice distinctions. We are told of political liberty - of religious liberty - of moral liberty. Yet, after all, is there more than one liberty; and these divisions, are they not the more and the less of the same thing? The provision we have referred to in our political institutions, as framed in accordance with the principle inherent in ourselves, insures to us all of free action that statues can insure.

Where men then are free to consult experience they will correct their practice, and make changes for the better. It follows, therefore, that the more free men …

The great national and political revolution of '76 set the seal to the liberties of North America. And but for one evil, and that of immense magnitude, which t…

There is, in the institutions of this country, one principle, which, had they no other excellence, would secure to them the preference over those of all other …