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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 Slow Poison [slavery] Is Daily Contaminating The Minds And Morals Of Our People. Every Gentlemen Here Is Born A Petty Tyrant, Practiced In Acts Of Despotism And Cruelty.

That No Man, Or Set Of Men, Are Entitled To Exclusive Or Separate Emoluments Or Privileges From The Community, But In Consideration Of Public Services; Which, Not Being Descendible, Neither Ought The Offices Of Magistrate, Legislator, Or Judge To Be Hereditary.

That General Warrants, Whereby An Officer Or Messenger May Be Commanded To Search Suspected Places Without Evidence Of A Fact Committed, Or To Seize Any Person Or Persons Not Named, Or Whose Offence Is Not Particularly Described And Supported By Evidence, Are Grievous And Oppressive, And Ought Not To Be Granted.

I Begin To Grow Heartily Tired Of The Etiquette And Nonsense So Fashionable In This City.