. Minutes . nty, as IMoses the Lawgiver used the pillarof cloud to guide the tribes in their free republic to completedeliverance fiom despotism. ]\Ir. Davis accepted the ideas of the eminent makers ofthe Constitution and believed that they had ordained and estab-lished a gemnal government which had am|)le powers to eon-duet the States to the broadest and loftiest national glory,without having eonlen-ed a grant oicven one power to ()j)pressa citizen or a class of citizens, nor* to discriminate against asection or seouige a State. This j)rinciple in the struetn!*<ol oni gov(U-nmeiit is
. Minutes . nty, as IMoses the Lawgiver used the pillarof cloud to guide the tribes in their free republic to completedeliverance fiom despotism. ]\Ir. Davis accepted the ideas of the eminent makers ofthe Constitution and believed that they had ordained and estab-lished a gemnal government which had am|)le powers to eon-duet the States to the broadest and loftiest national glory,without having eonlen-ed a grant oicven one power to ()j)pressa citizen or a class of citizens, nor* to discriminate against asection or seouige a State. This j)rinciple in the struetn!*<ol oni gov(U-nmeiit is a stone laid in the foinidations ol the])olitical faith of Jefferson Davis and is yet as in(lis|)ensable asit -was when oui fatheis made, it the substantial eoi-nerstoneol the Union. On his sleady eonvietion that these founda-tions would not be i-eiiioved he had re|)o,sed his eonfidenec;in the fairness of administrations, and, Ihei-eloi-e, believed inI he slabililv and prosperily of llie eouuliy. (onsisleni willi. Monument in Hollywood to Conimodorc Matthew F Mauryand Mausolfuni of Jrtsident Mourof. 146 Sevcntccntli ReiDiion, Ixic/nuo/id, May 30 -June 3, 1907. that view, be saw tluit the; United Stnles could retain a dual i integrity and yet pioteet and employ ^dl their i)owei-s, conserve i interstate relations, increase the countr^^s area, ])roniote ct)ni-nierce, enlarge industries, restrain couunercial evil aspirationsand prevent sectional discords. lie tlierefore approved thereasons made known to him in earl,y manhood why the Louisi- | ana territory had been lawfully and wisely acquired. The pur- i chase was a sequence of constitutional duty but not a breach | theieof, and hence lu did iiol agree with some statesmen that | this ])urchase was a good cause for secession, although he con- | eeded the right at that time of those dissatisfied States to | secede. Nor did he see any good cause for the action of the | Hartford Convention, nor for the suggestion of a New Eng-land Re
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