What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

Johnson's term in the House expired March 3 1819 but by August he had returned to the state legislature where he helped secure passage of a law that aboliRichard Mentor Johnsond imprisonment for debtors in Kentucky. In September Oliver Hazard Perry destroyed most of the British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie taking control of the lake. He was placed on the Committee on Courts of Justice.

Van Buren campaigned without a running mate. It worked against his political ambitions. He finally was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1850 but he died on November 19 1850 just two weeks into his term.