There it advances with steady and noiseless march behind every louder question of constitutional change.

Let us do justice to our time.

There have been periods of more brilliant action on the destinies of States, but there is no time visible in History in which there was so earnest and general a desire to improve the condition of the great body of the people.

In every circle of the community that healthful desire is astir.

It unites in one object men of parties the most opposed; it affords the most attractive nucleus for public meetings; it has cleansed the statute-book from blood; it is ridding the world of the hangman.