Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.