The Augmentation Of Slaves Weakens The States;

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.

One Of The First Principles Of Decorative Art Is That In All Manufactures Ornament Must Hold A Place Subordinate To That Of Utility; And When, By Its Exuberance, Ornament Interferes With Utility, It Is Misplaced And Vulgar.

The Augmentation Of Slaves Weakens The States; And Such A Trade Is Diabolical In Itself, And Disgraceful To Mankind.

All Power Is Vested In, And Consequently Derived From, The People; [...] Magistrates Are Their Trustees And Servants, And At All Times Amenable To Them.

Every Master Of Slaves Is Born A Petty Tyrant. They Bring The Judgment Of Heaven On A Country. As Nations Can Not Be Rewarded Or Punished In The Next World They Must Be In This. By An Inevitable Chain Of Causes & Effects Providence Punishes National Sins, By National Calamities.