I do not argue--I beseech you to make the argument for yourself.

_FOURTH_

Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of

its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?

_FIFTH_

Lift artificial weights from all shoulders.

_SIXTH_

The purposes of the Lord are perfect and must prevail.

_SEVENTH_

Some people say they could not take very well to my proclamation, but

now that I have the varioloid, I am happy to say I have something that

everybody can take.

_EIGHTH_

Honest statesmanship is the employment of individual meannesses for

the public good.

_NINTH_

Obey God's commandments.

_TENTH_

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference

of purpose between the Almighty and them.

_ELEVENTH_

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

_TWELFTH_

There is but one duty now--to fight.

_THIRTEENTH_

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations,

and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions

and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

_FOURTEENTH_

This, too, shall pass away: never fear.

_FIFTEENTH_

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