Those Gentlemen, Who Will Be

This Cold Weather Has Set All The Young Folks To Providing Bedfellows. I Have Signed Two Or Three Licences Every Day [as A Fairfax Justice Of The Peace] Since I Have Been At Home. I Wish I Knew Where To Get A Good One Myself; For I Find Cold Sheets Extreamly Disagreeable.

As Nations Can Not Be Rewarded Or Punished In The Next World They Must Be In This.

Slavery Discourages Arts And Manufacturing ...[and] Every Master Of Slaves Is Born A Petty Tyrant.

We Are Now To Rank Among The Nations Of The World; But Whether Our Independence Shall Prove A Blessing Or A Curse Must Depend Upon Our Own Wisdom Or Folly, Virtue Or Wickedness.... Justice And Virtue Are The Vital Principles Of Republican Government.

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.