The interest, the honor, the ultimate prosperity of the whole country--its reputation and influence in the eyes of the world--demanded that the Government should be supported in its efforts to check the aggressions of foreign nations, and establish the rights of American citizens.
Seward emphasizes the importance of supporting the government to protect national interests and citizens' rights.
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It depends not on the zeal and firmness only of the reformers, but on their wisdom and moderation also.
But power, confessedly derived from the people, must be exercised in obedience to their will, and must be resigned to them again, at least in death.
By the blessing of the Author of those rights, they have prevailed over all opposition, and form the basis of thirteen independent States.
Let it be remembered, that it has ever been the pride and the boast of America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature.
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