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Happiness And Prosperity Are Now Within Our Reach; But To Attain And Preserve Them Must Depend Upon Our Own Wisdom And Virtue.

That The People Have A Right To Uniform Government; And, Therefore, That No Government Separate From, Or Independent Of The Government Of Virginia, Ought To Be Erected Or Established Within The Limits Thereof.

Is It To Be Expected That The Southern States Will Deliver Themselves Bound Hand And Foot To The Eastern States? A Few Rich Merchants In Philadelphia, Boston, And New York Could Thereby Monopolise The Staples Of The Southern States And Reduce Their Value.

I Charge [my Sons] Never To Let The Motives Of Private Interest Or Ambition To Influence Them To Betray, Nor The Terrors Of Poverty And Disgrace, Or The Fear Of Danger Or Of Death Deter Them From Asserting The Liberty Of Their Country, And Endeavoring To Transmit To Their Posterity Those Sacred Rights To Which Themselves Were Born

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.