I Never Know What South Carolina Thinks

Government Has Within It A Tendency To Abuse Its Powers.

Irresponsible Power Is Inconsistent With Liberty, And Must Corrupt Those Who Exercise It.

I Take Higher Ground. I Hold That In The Present State Of Civilization, Where Two Races Of Different Origin, And Distinguished By Color, And Other Physical Differences, As Well As Intellectual, Are Brought Together, The Relation Now Existing In The Slaveholding States Between The Two, Is, Instead Of An Evil, A Good—a Positive Good. . . . I Hold Then, That There Never Has Yet Existed A Wealthy And Civilized Society In Which One Portion Of The Community Did Not, In Point Of Fact, Live On The Labor Of The Other.

Learn From Your Mistakes And Build On Your Successes.

The Object Of A Constitution Is To Restrain The Government, As That Of Laws Is To Restrain Individuals.