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The Question Then Will Be, Whether A Consolidated Government Can Preserve The Freedom And Secure The Rights Of The People.

That Slow Poison [slavery] Is Daily Contaminating The Minds And Morals Of Our People. Every Gentlemen Here Is Born A Petty Tyrant, Practiced In Acts Of Despotism And Cruelty.

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

Attend With Diligence And Strict Integrity To The Interest Of Your Correspondents And Enter Into No Engagements Which You Have Not The Almost Certain Means Of Performing.

This Cold Weather Has Set All The Young Folks To Providing Bedfellows. I Have Signed Two Or Three Licences Every Day [as A Fairfax Justice Of The Peace] Since I Have Been At Home. I Wish I Knew Where To Get A Good One Myself; For I Find Cold Sheets Extreamly Disagreeable.