Edmund Burke: “Never was cause or man supported with more constancy, more activity, more spirit.”

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.