Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.
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I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntary to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
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We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Armenian clergy.
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