Every One Knows That The Exercise Of

If Men, Through Fear, Fraud, Or Mistake, Should In Terms Renounce Or Give Up Any Natural Right, The Eternal Law Of Reason And The Grand End Of Society Would Absolutely Vacate Such Renunciation. The Right To Freedom Being The Gift Of Almighty God, It Is Not In The Power Of Man To Alienate This Gift And Voluntarily Become A Slave.

It Is A Very Great Mistake To Imagine That The Object Of Loyalty Is The Authority And Interest Of One Individual Man, However Dignified By The Applause Or Enriched By The Success Of Popular Actions.

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.

It Is No Dishonor To Be In A Minority In The Cause Of Liberty And Virtue

May Every Citizen ... Have A Proper Sense Of The Deity Upon His Mind And An Impression Of The Declaration Recorded In The Bible, 'him That Honoreth Me I Will Honor, But He That Despiseth Me Shall Be Lightly Esteemed.'