Excerpt from The Claims of Puritanism: A Sermon Preached at the Annual Election, May 31, 1826, Before His Excellency, Levi Lincoln, Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts

Paritans was this great cause committed, and they proved themselves not unworthy of the trust. Animated at first by the love of religious liberty, demanding tole ration as the undoubted privilege Of that mind which God had made free - feeling that the rights of conscienc'e were not only rights, but duties also, they were insensibly lead and at the same time powerfully strengthened to assert the claim of political freedom. They did assert and main tain it, and in doing so, they have accomplished a work next only in importance to the introduction of Christianity itself.

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