the red hot <​consuming​> wrath of an offended God shall Smoke through the nation, with as much distress and woe, as Indenpendenc did <​has blazed​> <​through​> with pleasure and delight. Where is the strength of Government? Where is the patriotism of a Washington, a Warren and Adams? And where is a spark from the watch fire of ’76, by which one candle might be lit that would glimmer upon the confines of democracy? Well may <​it​> be said that one man is not a state; nor one state the Nation. In the days of General [Andrew] Jackson, when refused the first instalment for spoilations, there was power, force and honor enough to resent injustice and insult and the money came: And Shall , filled with negro drive[r]s, and white menstealers go “unwhipt of Justice” for ten fold <​◊◊◊ter <​greater​>​> sins than ? No; verily no! While I have powers of body and mind; while water runs and grass grows; while virtue is lovely and vice hateful; and while a stone points out a sacred spot where a fragment of American Liberty once was, I, or my posterity, like the Rock from which Moses drew the water for the thrist of Israel, issue the living truth will plead— the cause of injured innoces [innocence?]. untils She <​​> makes atonement for all her sins— or sinks disgraced, degraded and [p. [7]]