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Citizen
And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus [through slavery] to trample on the rights of the other…
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion.
