Who Are The Militia, If They Be

That The People Have A Right To Uniform Government; And, Therefore, That No Government Separate From, Or Independent Of The Government Of Virginia, Ought To Be Erected Or Established Within The Limits Thereof.

I Quitted My Seat In The House Of Delegates, From A Conviction That I Was No Longer Able To Do Any Essential Service.

If I Can Only Live To See The American Union Firmly Fixed, And Free Governments Well Established In Our Western World, And Can Leave To My Children But A Crust Of Bread And Liberty, I Shall Die Satisfied.

I Have Been For Some Time In Retirement, And Shall Not Probably Return Again To Public Life; Yet My Anxiety For My Country, In These Times Of Danger, Makes Me Sometimes Dabble A Little In Politicks, And Keep Up A Correspondence With Some Men Upon The Public Stage.

We Owe To Our Mother-country The Duty Of Subjects But Will Not Pay Her The Submission Of Slaves.