If Our Trade Be Taxed, Why Not

Let Us Contemplate Our Forefathers, And Posterity, And Resolve To Maintain The Rights Bequeathed To Us From The Former, For The Sake Of The Latter. The Necessity Of The Times, More Than Ever, Calls For Our Utmost Circumspection, Deliberation, Fortitude And Perseverance. Let Us Remember That "if We Suffer Tamely A Lawless Attack Upon Our Liberty, We Encourage It, And Involve Others In Our Doom," It Is A Very Serious Consideration That Millions Yet Unborn May Be The Miserable Sharers Of The Event.

The Liberties Of Our Country, The Freedom Of Our Civil Constitution, Are Worth Defending Against All Hazards: And It Is Our Duty To Defend Them Against All Attacks.

We Shall Never Be Abandoned By Heaven While We Act Worthy Of Its Aid And Protection

Is It Not High Time For The People Of This Country Explicitly To Declare, Whether They Will Be Freemen Or Slaves? It Is An Important Question Which Ought To Be Decided. It Concerns Us More Than Any Thing In This Life. The Salvation Of Our Souls Is Interested In The Event: For Wherever Tyranny Is Establish'd, Immorality Of Every Kind Comes In Like A Torrent. It Is In The Interest Of Tyrants To Reduce The People To Ignorance And Vice.

All Might Be Free If They Valued Freedom, And Defended It As They Should.