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fess, that you indeed deserve liberty, who so well understand it, so passionately love it, so temperately enjoy it, and so wisely, bravely, and virtuously assert, maintain, and defend it.
“Certe ego libertatem, quæ mihi a parente meo tradita est, experiar: Verum id frustra an ob rem faciam, in vestra manu situm est, quirites.”For my part, I am resolved to contend for the liberty delivered down to me by my ancestors; but whether I shall do it effectually or not, depends on you, my countrymen.“How little soever one is able to write, yet when the liberties of one’s country are threatened, it is still more difficult to be silent.”
A FARMER.
Is there not the strongest probability, that if the universal sense of these colonies is immediately expressed by resolves of the assemblies, in support of their rights, by instructions to their agents on the subject, and by petitions to the crown and parliament for redress, these measures will have the same success now, that they had in the time of the Stamp-Act.
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