Let Us By Wise And Constitutional Measures

There Is A Price Tag On Human Liberty. That Price Is The Willingness To Assume The Responsibilities Of Being Free Men. Payment Of This Price Is A Personal Matter With Each Of Us.

Of The Liberty Of Conscience In Matters Of Religious Faith, Of Speech And Of The Press; Of The Trial By Jury Of The Vicinage In Civil And Criminal Cases; Of The Benefit Of The Writ Of Habeas Corpus; Of The Right To Keep And Bear Arms.... If These Rights Are Well Defined, And Secured Against Encroachment, It Is Impossible That Government Should Ever Degenerate Into Tyranny.

The Civil War Which Has So Long Prevailed Between Spain And The Provinces In South America Still Continues, Without Any Prospect Of Its Speedy Termination.

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.

I Regret That I Should Leave This World Without Again Beholding Him.