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 the constitutional provision we have been considering does not fairly reach - I allude to negro slavery and the degradation of our coloured citizens - we could foresee for the whole of this magnificent country a certain future of uniform and peaceful improvement.

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 …

The great error of the wisest known nations of antiquity, the Greeks and Romans, was the preference invariable given to the imagined interests of an imaginary …

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 …