Slavery Discourages Arts And Manufactures.

Attend With Diligence And Strict Integrity To The Interest Of Your Correspondents And Enter Into No Engagements Which You Have Not The Almost Certain Means Of Performing.

I Determined To Spend The Remainder Of My Days In Privacy And Retirement With My Children, From Whose Society Alone I Cou'd Expect Comfort.

All Men Are Created Equally Free And Independent, And Have Certain Inherent Rights, Of Which They Cannot, By Any Compact, Deprive Or Divest Their Posterity; Among Which Are The Enjoyment Of Life And Liberty, With The Means Of Acquiring And Possessing Property, And Pursuing The Obtaining Of Happiness And Safety.

Our All Is At Stake, And The Little Conveniencys And Comforts Of Life, When Set In Competition With Our Liberty, Ought To Be Rejected Not With Reluctance But With Pleasure.

I Quitted My Seat In The House Of Delegates, From A Conviction That I Was No Longer Able To Do Any Essential Service.