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The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Resistance to the laws. (search)
Religious Freedom. It proclaimed the great principle that every man's religion was between him and his God, free from Government interference, and denied to her Legislature the right to confer peculiar privileges upon any sect or denomination of religion. It marked a distinct step forward in the mighty march of civilization. Of all the nations of the world she was the first to take it. Madison dedicated the first labors of his great and illustrious public life to the support of it, and Jefferson desired it should stand for his epitaph that he was Founder of the University of Virginia, author of the Declaration of Independence, and of the act of Religious Freedom. The resolution in which he asked the concurrence of the House is in the spirit of that great act. It is the same that the House has heretofore sanctioned, but he presumed, by inadvertence, was substituted by the one under which you are acting, which confines your invitation to the clergy of particular sects of religion.-