Conveyed by the charity of the humane to their native shores, they bore the pleasing intelligence to Africa, that justice was at last claiming its way among civilized and Christian men! The recital of heroic actions loses its chief value, if we cannot discover the principles in which they were born.

The text of John Quincy Adams, from which he deduced the duties of citizens, and of the republic, was the address of the Continental Congress to the people of the United States, on the occasion of the successful close of the American Revolution.

He dwelt often and emphatically on the words: Let it be remembered, that it has ever been the pride and the boast of America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature.

By the blessing of the Author of those rights, they have prevailed over all opposition, and form the basis of thirteen independent States.

No instance has heretofore occurred, nor can any instance be expected hereafter to occur, in which the unadulterated forms of republican government can pretend to so fair an opportunity of justifying themselves by their fruits.