If Our Trade Be Taxed, Why Not

I Thank God That I Have Lived To See My Country Independent And Free. She May Long Enjoy Her Independence And Freedom If She Will. It Depends On Her Virtue.

He Who Made All Men Hath Made The Truths Necessary To Human Happiness Obvious To All. Our Forefathers Opened The Bible To All.

Could I Be Assured That America Would Remain Virtuous, I Would Venture To Defy The Utmost Efforts Of Enemies To Subjugate Her.

And If A Minister Shall Usurp The Supreme And Absolute Govern Ment Of America, And Set Up His Instructions As Laws In The Colonies, And Their Governors Shall Be So Weak Or So Wicked, As For The Sake Of Keeping Their Places, To Be Made The Instruments In Putting Them In Execu Tion, Who Will Presume To Say That The People Have Not A Right, Or That It Is Not Their Indispensible Duty To God And Their Country, By All Rational Means In Their Power To Resist Them.

The Sum Of All Is, If We Would Most Truly Enjoy This Gift Of Heaven, Let Us Become A Virtuous People.