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It Is Only When The People Become Ignorant And Corrupt, When They Degenerate Into A Populace, That They Are Incapable Of Exercising Their Sovereignty.

The Citizens Of The United States Cherish Sentiments The Most Friendly In Favor Of Liberty And Happiness...beyond The Atlantic. In The Wars Of The European Powers In Matters Relating To Themselves We Have Never Taken Any Part, Nor Does It Comport With Our Policy To Do So. It Is Only When Our Rights Are Invaded Or Seriously Menaced That We Resent Injuries.

The Great Increase Of Our Population Throughout The Union Will Alone Produce An Important Effect, And In No Quarter Will It Be So Sensibly Felt As In Those In Contemplation.

A Free, Virtuous, And Enlightened People Must Know Full Well The Great Principles And Causes Upon Which Their Happiness Depends.

The Crime Of Ingratitude Has Not Yet Stained, And I Trust Never Will Stain, Our National Character. You Are Considered By Them As Not Only Having Rendered Important Service In Our Own Revolution, But As Being, On A More Extended Scale, The Friend Of Human Rights, And Able Advocate Of Public Liberty. To The Welfare Of Thomas Paine, The Americas Are Not, Nor Can They Be, Indifferent.