I Thank God, I Have Been Able,

Taught To Regard A Part Of Our Own Species In The Most Abject And Contemptible Degree Below Us, We Lose That Idea Of The Dignity Of Man Which The Hand Of Nature Had Implanted In Us, For Great And Useful Purposes.

Happiness And Prosperity Are Now Within Our Reach; But To Attain And Preserve Them Must Depend Upon Our Own Wisdom And Virtue.

As Much As I Value An Union Of All The States, I Would Not Admit The Southern States Into The Union, Unless They Agreed To The Discontinuance Of This Disgraceful Trade, Because It Would Bring Weakness And Not Strength To The Union.

That Elections Of Members To Serve As Representatives Of The People, In Assembly, Ought To Be Free; And That All Men, Having Sufficient Evidence Of Permanent Common Interest With, And Attachment To, The Community, Have The Right Of Suffrage, And Cannot Be Taxed Or Deprived Of Their Property For Public Uses, Without Their Own Consent, Or That Of Their Representives So Elected, Nor Bound By Any Law To Which They Have Not, In Like Manner, Assembled, For The Public Good.

Slavery Discourages Arts And Manufacturing ...[and] Every Master Of Slaves Is Born A Petty Tyrant.