Give Credit To Whom Credit Due.

Hence As A Private Man Has A Right To Say What Wages He Will Give In His Private Affairs, So Has A Community To Determine What They Will Give And Grant Of Their Substance For The Administration Of Public Affairs.

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.

But There Are Some Persons Who Wouldpersuade The People Never To Make Use Of Their Constitutional Rights.

Just And True Liberty, Equal And Impartial Liberty, In Matters Spiritual And Temporal Is A Thing That All Men Are Clearly Entitled To By The Eternal And Immutable Laws Of God And Nature, As Well As By The Laws Of Nations And All Well-grounded And Municipal Laws, Which Must Have Their Foundation In The Former.

Of How Much Importance Is It, That The Utmost Pains Be Taken By The Public To Have The Principles Of Virtue Early Inculcated On The Minds Even Of Children, And The Moral Sense Kept Alive.