The Poor Despise Labor When Performed By

We Will Not Submit To Have Our Own Money Taken Out Of Our Pockets Without Our Consent; Because If Any Man Or Any Set Of Men Take From Us Without Our Consent Or That Of Our Representatives One Shilling In The Pound We Have Not Security For The Remaining Nineteen. We Owe To Our Mother Country The Duty Of Subjects But Will Not Pay Her The Submission Of Slaves.

Slavery Discourages Arts And Manufactures.

Who Are The Militia? They Consist Now Of The Whole People, Except A Few Public Officers. But I Cannot Say Who Will Be The Militia Of The Future Day. If That Paper On The Table [the Constitution] Gets No Alteration, The Militia Of The Future Day May Not Consist Of All Classes, High And Low, And Rich And Poor.

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.

That Slow Poison [slavery] Is Daily Contaminating The Minds And Morals Of Our People. Every Gentlemen Here Is Born A Petty Tyrant, Practiced In Acts Of Despotism And Cruelty.