We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to interfere with the Government or with political parties. We believe that the cause of good government and the cause of religion both suffer by all such interference.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of…

The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cheri…

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

While I concur with the Synod in the efficacy of prayer, and in the hope that our country may be preserved from the attacks of pestilence 'and that the judgmen…

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that t…