A.H.Cragin, of New Hamphshire, in a speech in the House of Representatives, said:-- "When our forefathers reared the magnificent structure of a free Republic in this western land, they laid its foundations broad and deep in the eternal principles of right.

Its materials were all quarried from the mountain of truth; and as it rose majestically before an astonished world, it rejoiced the hearts and hopes of mankind.

Tyrants only cursed the workmen and their workmanship.

Its architecture was new.

It had no model in Grecian or Roman history.
It seemed a paragon let down from Heaven to inspire the hopes of men, and to demonstrate God's favor to the people of the New World.
The builders recognized the rights of human nature as universal.
Liberty, the great first right of man, they claimed for 'all men,' and claimed it from 'God himself.' Upon this foundation they erected the temple, and dedicated it to Liberty, Humanity, Justice, and Equality.