Give every man his constituttional freedom, and the president full power to send an army to suppress mobs; and the States authority to repeal and impugn that relic of folly, which makes it necessary for the Governor of a State to make the demand of the president for troops, in cases of invasion or rebellion. The Governor himself may be a mobber and, instead of being punished, as he should be for murder and treason, he may destroy the very lives, rights and property he should protect. Like the good Samaritan, send every lawyer as soon as he repents and obeys the ordinances of heaven, to preach the gospel to the destitute, without purse or scrip, pouring in the oil and the wine: a learned priesthood is certainly more honorable than “An Hireling Clergy.”

As to the contiguous territories to the , wisdom would direct no tangling alliance: belongs to this Government honorably, and when we have the Red Man’s consent, let the spread from the East to the West Sea; and if petitions Congress to be adopted among the Sons of Liberty; give her the the right hand of fellowship; and refuse not the same friendly grip to and : and when the right arm of freemen is stretched out in the Character of a Navy, for the protection of rights, commerce and honor, let the iron eyes of power, watch, from to , and from to : thus may Union be strengthened, and foreign speculation prevented from opposing broadside to broadside.

Seventy years have done much for this goodly land; it has burst the chains of oppression and monarchy; and multiplied its inhabitants from two to twenty millions; with a proportionate share of knowledge: keen enough to circumnavigate the globe; draw the lightning from the clouds: and cope with all the crowned heads of the world. [p. [16]]