Page:Political Tracts.djvu/217

 are entitled to Life, Liberty, and Property, and that they have never ceded to any overeign power whatever a right to dipoe of either without their conent.

this retaliation tands alone, the Americans are free from ingularity of opinion; their wit has not yet betrayed them to herey. While they peak as the naked ons 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.

is very uniform. The Americans have this reemblance to Europeans, that they do not always know when they are well. They oon quit the fortres that could neither have been mined by ophitry, nor battered by declamation. Their next reolution declares, that their ancetors, who firt ettled the