We challenge scrutiny for our industry, for our commerce, for our social customs, for our municipal affairs, for our State questions, for all that we believe, and all that we do, and everything that we build.
He calls for transparency and accountability in all aspects of society, advocating for critical examination.
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And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.
All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.
And if by an insane blindness you shall contrive to put off the issue, and send this unsettled dispute down to your children, it will go down, gathering volume and strength at every step, to waste and desolate their heritage.
Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!