It Is In The Interest Of Tyrants

It Is Therefore Recommended... To Set Apart Thursday The Eighteenth Day Of December Next, For Solemn Thanksgiving And Praise, That With One Heart And One Voice The Good People May Express The Grateful Feelings Of Their Hearts And Consecrate Themselves To The Service Of Their Divine Benefactor.

If Our Trade Be Taxed, Why Not Our Lands, Or Produce In Short, Everything We Possess? They Tax Us Without Having Legal Representation.

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.

A General Dissolution Of Principles And Manners Will More Surely Overthrow The Liberties Of America Than The Whole Force Of The Common Enemy.

The Country Shall Be Independent, And We Will Be Satisfied With Nothing Short Of It.