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The Necessity Of The Times, More Than Ever, Calls For Our Utmost Circumspection, Deliberation, Fortitude, And Perseverance.

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.

And If We Now Cast Our Eyes Over The Nations Of The Earth, We Shall Find That, Instead Of Possessing The Pure Religion Of The Gospel, They May Be Divided Either Into Infidels, Who Deny The Truth; Or Politicians Who Make Religion A Stalking Horse For Their Ambition; Or Professors, Who Walk In The Trammels Of Orthodoxy, And Are More Attentive To Traditions And Ordinances Of Men Than To The Oracles Of Truth.

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.

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.