Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which above all things should be avoided, and in many instances would compel men to a mode of Worship which they do not profess.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?