I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

Have the strength to be an honest person.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.