We tried pathetic appeals to the wandering waiters, who told us "they are coming, Sir" in a soothing tone--and we tried stern remo...nstrance, & they then said "they are coming, Sir" in a more injured tone; & after all such appeals they retired into their dens, and hid themselves behind sideboards and dish-covers, still the chops came not. We agreed that of all virtues a waiter can display, that of a retiring disposition is quite the least desirable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government. On the broaching... of this question, as general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel. Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?--We ask triumphantly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, a...nd slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodn...ess, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used tha...t word.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.... Who does not see that the same authority which can establi...sh Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience is held by the same ...tenure with all our rights. [The legislature] are bound to leave this particular right untouched and sacred, [or] we must say, that they may control freedom of the press, may abolish the trial by jury, may swallow the Executive and the Judiciary Powers of the State; nay that they may despoil us of our very right of suffrage ... or we must say, that they have no authority to enact [a religious assessment].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence conte...mplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Religious establishment] is adverse to the diffusion of the light of Christianity ... [because] with an ignoble and unchristian t...imidity it would [be] circumscribed, with a wall of defence, against the encroachments of error.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »