This Fourth Of July Is Yours, Not

...i Recognize The Widest Possible Difference-so Wide, That To Receive The One As Good, Pure, And Holy, Is Of Necessity To Reject The Other As Bad, Corrupt, And Wicked. To Be The Friend Of One, Is Of Necessity To Be The Enemy Of The Other.

For Of All Slaveholders With Whom I Have Ever Met, Religious Slaveholders Are The Worst. I Have Ever Found Them The Meanest And Basest, The Most Cruel And Cowardly, Of All Others.

Be Not Discouraged. There Is A Future For You. . . . The Resistance Encountered Now Predicates Hope. . .

I Ask You...to Adopt The Principles Proclaimed By Yourselves, By Your Revolutionary Fathers, And By The Old Bell In Independence Hall.

They Who Study Mankind With A Whip In Their Hands Will Always Go Wrong.