are entitled to Life, Liberty, and Property, and that they have never ceded to any ſovereign power whatever a right to diſpoſe of either without their conſent.
While this retaliation ſtands alone, the Americans are free from ſingularity of opinion; their wit has not yet betrayed them to hereſy. While they ſpeak as the naked ſons of Nature, they claim but what is claimed by other men, and have withheld nothing but what all with-hold. They are here upon firm ground, behind entrenchments which never can be forced.
Humanity is very uniform. The Americans have this reſemblance to Europeans, that they do not always know when they are well. They ſoon quit the fortreſs that could neither have been mined by ſophiſtry, nor battered by declamation. Their next reſolution declares, that their anceſtors, who firſt ſettled the
