[m]en Will Be Free No Longer Then

A True Patriot Would Keep The Attention Of His Fellow Citizens Awake To Their Grievances, And Not Allow Them To Rest Till The Causes Of Their Just Complaints Are Removed.

He Who Is Void Of Virtuous Attachments In Private Life Is, Or Very Soon Will Be, Void Of All Regard For His Country. There Is Seldom An Instance Of A Man Guilty Of Betraying His Country, Who Had Not Before Lost The Feeling Of Moral Obligations In His Private Connections.

In Short, It Is The Greatest Absurdity To Suppose It In The Power Of One, Or Any Number Of Men, At The Entering Into Society, To Renounce Their Essential Natural Rights, Or The Means Of Preserving Those Rights; When The Grand End Of Civil Government, From The Very Nature Of Its Institution, Is For The Support, Protection, And Defence Of Those Very Rights; The Principal Of Which, As Is Before Observed, Are Life, Liberty, And Property.

It Is Therefore Recommended... To Set Apart Thursday The Eighteenth Day Of December Next, For Solemn Thanksgiving And Praise, That With One Heart And One Voice The Good People May Express The Grateful Feelings Of Their Hearts And Consecrate Themselves To The Service Of Their Divine Benefactor.

Nothing Is More Essential To The Establishment Of Manners In A State Than That All Persons Employed In Places Of Power And Trust Must Be Men Of Unexceptionable Characters.