The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm... But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

Indulging no passions which trespass on the rights or the repose of other nations, it has been the true glory of the US to cultivate peace by observing justice, and to entitle themselves to the respect of the nations at war by fulfilling their neutra