Who But Shall Learn That Freedom Is

The Conflict Between The Principle Of Liberty And The Fact Of Slavery Is Coming Gradually To An Issue. Slavery Has Now The Power, And Falls Into Convulsions At The Approach Of Freedom.

Is It Not That In The Chain Of Human Events, The Birthday Of A Nation Is Indissolubly Linked With The Birthday Of The Savior? That It Forms A Leading Event In The Progress Of The Gospel Dispensation? Is It Not That The Declaration Of Independence First Organized The Social Compact On The Foundation Of The Redeemer’s Mission Upon Earth? That It Laid The Cornerstone Of Human Government Upon The First Precepts Of Christianity?

America Is A Friend Of Freedom Everywhere, But A Custodian Only Of Our Own.

The Law Is An Artificial Human Construct, Quite Arbitrary, And Of Absolutely No Use Anywhere Else But In A Court Of Law!

I Do Conscientiously And Sincerely Believe That The Order Of Freemasonry, If Not The Greatest, Is One Of The Greatest Moral And Political Evils Under Which The Union Is Now Laboring ... A Conspiracy Of The Few Against The Equal Rights Of The Many ...masonry Ought Forever To Be Abolished. It Is Wrong - Essentially Wrong - A Seed Of Evil, Which Can Never Produce Any Good.