The very instant the press ventures beyond its prescribed limits, the constitutional barriers erected for its protection sink into the dust, and a censorship, the more stern and vindictive from being illegal, crushes it into submission.
This quote warns of the dangers of censorship and the fragility of press freedoms in the face of oppression.
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He is terrified by the echo of his own threats, and the very proposal to dissolve the Union and leave him to his fate, throws him into paroxysms.
Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.
You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.
Do you ask that your children may be rescued from the ignorance and irreligion to which they are now doomed, and that avenues may be opened for you and for them to honest and profitable employment?