while i have powers of body and mind while water runs and grass grows while virtue is lovely and vice hateful ; and while a stone points out a sacred spot where a fragment of american liberty once was , i or my posterity will plead the cause of injured innocence , until missouri makes atonement for all her sins , or sinks disgraced , degraded , and damned to hell , where the worm dieth not , and the fire is not quenched .