I Thank God, I Have Been Able,

It Is Contrary To The Principles Of Reason And Justice That Any Should Be Compelled To Contribute To The Maintenance Of A Church With Which Their Consciences Will Not Permit Them To Join, And From Which They Can Derive No Benefit; For Remedy Whereof, And That Equal Liberty As Well Religious As Civil, May Be Universally Extended To All The Good People Of This Commonwealth.

Every Society, All Government, And Every Kind Of Civil Compact Therefore, Is Or Ought To Be, Calculated For The General Good And Safety Of The Community.

That General Warrants, Whereby An Officer Or Messenger May Be Commanded To Search Suspected Places Without Evidence Of A Fact Committed, Or To Seize Any Person Or Persons Not Named, Or Whose Offence Is Not Particularly Described And Supported By Evidence, Are Grievous And Oppressive, And Ought Not To Be Granted.

We Owe To Our Mother-country The Duty Of Subjects But Will Not Pay Her The Submission Of Slaves.

I Have Been For Some Time In Retirement, And Shall Not Probably Return Again To Public Life; Yet My Anxiety For My Country, In These Times Of Danger, Makes Me Sometimes Dabble A Little In Politicks, And Keep Up A Correspondence With Some Men Upon The Public Stage.