Nations change their names, their boundaries, their creeds and
their languages. The altars of yesterday are but the curios of
to-day. The temples that have been raised to the worships that
have now disappeared from the face of the earth but move our
wonder that beliefs so simple and so transparent should have
nerved the minds of men to raise such marvels of architecture.
But tho creeds and dynasties and languages are ephemeral, the
principles of justice are eternal; and this Government, founded
and built upon them, will, I believe, last to the end of
time.--WILLIAM BOURKE COCKRAN.
(1711)