Strange that the philosopher who extenuated Duelling should have been so true and lofty against Slavery!

Sheridan was a genius who united the palm of eloquence in Parliament with that other palm won at the Theatre.

America, with a wisdom, prudence, and magnanimity which we have disdained, thrives at this moment in a state of envied tranquillity, and is hourly clearing the paths to unbounded opulence.

Here are true respect and sympathy for our country, with a forecast of increasing prosperity, and an image of her attitude among the nations.

Against her we could not strike a blow that would not be as severely felt in London as in America, so identified were the two countries by commercial intercourse.

If we commenced another crusade against her, we might destroy her trade, and check the progress of her agriculture, but we must also equally injure ourselves.

Desperate, therefore, indeed, must be that war in which each wound inflicted on our enemy would at the same time inflict one upon ourselves.

All good men on both sides of the ocean must join with Fox, who thus early deprecated war between the United States and England, and portrayed the fearful consequences.

Time, which has enlarged and multiplied the relations between the two countries, makes his words more applicable now than when first uttered.

In all history no hero of humanity stands forth more conspicuous for instinctive sympathy with the Rights of Man and constancy in their support.

More than any other person he contributed to prevent the destruction of public monuments, and was the first to call this crime “Vandalism,”--an excellent term, since adopted in all European languages.

Better a loss to deplore than an injustice to reproach ourselves with,” was his lofty solace as he turned from the warning that the Colonies might be endangered by the rights he demanded.

A day will come when deputies of color will traverse the ocean to come and sit in the national diet, and to swear with us to live and die under our laws.

Thus resting on the two oceans with a canal between, so that the early “secret of the strait” shall no longer exist, the American Republic will change the face of the world, and perhaps make Europe subaltern.

Jefferson’s words picturing Slavery were unequalled in the prolonged discussion of that terrible subject, and his two Inaugural Addresses are masterpieces of political truth.

But with clearer eye Adams foresaw the future grandeur of the Republic, and dwelt on its ravishing light and glory.

The vision of our country coextensive and coincident with the North American Continent was never beheld by Jefferson.

The cement of this Union is in the heart-blood of every American.

I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.

If the republics of Spanish America, thus summoned into independent existence, have not contributed the weight thus vaunted, the growing power of the United States is ample to compensate deficiencies on this continent.

His honest and practical insight made him philosopher and prophet, which he was always.

His clearness of vision appears in the distinctness with which he recognized the peril from Slavery and from the pretensions of the States.

And in Slavery he saw also the prolonged and diversified indignity to the African race.

The most formidable of all the evils which menace the future of the United States springs from the presence of the blacks on their soil.

The Americans of the United States, whatever they do, will become one of the greatest people of the world; they will cover with their offshoots almost all North America.