It Is In The Interest

Among The Natural Rights Of The Colonists Are These: First, A Right To Life; Second, To Liberty; Third, To Property; Together With The Right To Support And Defend Them In The Best Manner They Can. These Are Evident Branches Of ... The Duty Of Self-preservation, Commonly Called The First Law Of Nature. All Men Have A Right To Remain In A State Of Nature As Long As They Please; And In Case Of Intolerable Oppression, Civil Or Religious, To Leave The Society They Belong To, And Ernter Into Another.... Now What Liberty Can There Be Where Property Is Taken Away Without Consent?

I Cannot However Help Repeating Piety, Because I Think It Indispensible. Religion In A Family Is At Once Its Brightest Ornament & Its Best Security.

The Next Step May Be Fatal To Us. Let Us Then Act Like Wise Men, Calmly Look Around Us And Consider What Is Best To Be Done...let Associations And Combinations Be Everywhere Set Up To Consult And Recover Our Just Rights.

Let Each Citizen Remember At The Moment He Is Offering His Vote...that He Is Executing One Of The Most Solemn Trusts In Human Society For Which He Is Accountable To God And His Country.

We Cannot Make Events. Our Business Is Wisely To Improve Them. Mankind Are Governed More By Their Feeling Than By Reason. Events Which Excite Those Feelings Will Produce Wonderful Effects.