The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented by all the Southern patriots of the Revolution; by no one with deeper and more unalterable conviction than by the author of the Declaration himself.
He reflects on the moral conflict between slavery and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence as recognized by Southern patriots.
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I have no doubt our citizens will rally a second time round the standard of Common Sense.
That it has exposed in broad day the overruling influence of the institution of domestic slavery upon the history and policy of the Union.
Adams replied: "I well know this; but labor I shall not refuse so long as my hands, my eyes, and my brain, do not desert me.
With a tolerable share of common sense, I hope, in America, to be independent and free.
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