Americans must live through all time a nation of freemen ,or die by suicide.”as Mr.Lincoln said in 1837,Religion,Morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind,schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”twice passed Fundamental LAW Northwest Ordinance Article III.Reflected a sermon by Elizur Goodrich
Preached in Hartford Conn. May 10,1787—Political sermons of the American founding era 1730-1805 Ellis Sandoz ed.vol I
The Principles of Civil Union and the Happiness of mankind Considered and recommended.”We have forgotten from when we came.
Within the orthodox Christian tradition, freemen are men who are not enslaved by their base passions, impulses, and compulsions. It is when man is the slave of his base passions that he commits suicide so to speak.
As Augustine observed of the natural men of his time, every man, from king to slave has as many masters as he has vices.