That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

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.