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The Conflict Between The Principle Of Liberty And The Fact Of Slavery Is Coming Gradually To An Issue. Slavery Has Now The Power, And Falls Into Convulsions At The Approach Of Freedom. That The Fall Of Slavery Is Predetermined In The Counsels Of Omnipotence I Cannot Doubt; It Is A Part Of The Great Moral Improvement In The Condition Of Man, Attested By All The Records Of History. But The Conflict Will Be Terrible, And The Progress Of Improvement Perhaps Retrograde Before Its Final Progress To Consummation.

About One-half Of The Members Of Congress Are Seekers For Office At The Nomination Of The President. Of The Remainder, At Least One-half Have Some Appointment Or Favor To Ask For Their Relatives.

In What Light Soever We Regard The Bible, Whether With Reference To Revelation, To History, Or To Morality, It Is An Invaluable And Inexhaustible Mine Of Knowledge And Virtue.

Religious Discord Has Lost Her Sting; The Cumbrous Weapons Of Theological Warfare Are Antiquated: The Field Of Politics Supplies The Alchymists Of Our Times With Materials Of More Fatal Explosion, And The Butchers Of Mankind No Longer Travel To Another World For Instruments Of Cruelty And Destruction.

The Freedom Of The Press Should Be Inviolate.