Let Divines And Philosophers, Statesmen And Patriots,

The Liberties Of Our Country, The Freedom Of Our Civil Constitution, Are Worth Defending Against All Hazards: And It Is Our Duty To Defend Them Against All Attacks.

Is It Not High Time For The People Of This Country Explicitly To Declare, Whether They Will Be Freemen Or Slaves? It Is An Important Question Which Ought To Be Decided. It Concerns Us More Than Any Thing In This Life. The Salvation Of Our Souls Is Interested In The Event: For Wherever Tyranny Is Establish'd, Immorality Of Every Kind Comes In Like A Torrent. It Is In The Interest Of Tyrants To Reduce The People To Ignorance And Vice.

Before The Formation Of This Constitution It Had Been Affirmed As A Self Evident Truth, In The Declaration Of Independence, Very Deliberately Made By The Representatives Of The United States Of America In Congress Assembled That 'all Men Are Created Equal, And Are Endowed By Their Creator With Certain Unalienable Rights' This Declaration Of Independence Was Received And Ratified By All The States In The Union & Has Never Been Disannuled. May We Not From Hence Conclude, That The Doctrine Of Liberty And Equality Is An Article In The Political Creed Of The United States.

Shame On The Men Who Can Court Exemption From Present Trouble And Expense At The Price Of Their Own Posterity's Liberty!

The Right To Freedom Being The Gift Of God, It Is Not In The Power Of Man To Alienate This Gift And Voluntarily Become A Slave.