Proceed until millions upon millions of your brethren of the human race, restored to the rights with which they were endowed by your and their Creator, but of which they have been robbed by ruffians of their own race, shall send their choral shouts of redemption to the skies in blessings upon your names.
Quincy envisions a future where the oppressed are restored to their rights, celebrating their liberation.
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The power of the present Congress to enact laws essential to the welfare of the people has been struck with apoplexy by the executive hand.
With a tolerable share of common sense, I hope, in America, to be independent and free.
As a treaty of commerce it will be indeed of little use to us, and we shall never obtain anything more favorable so long as the principles of the navigation act are obstinately adhered to by Great Britain.
Rather than live otherwise, I would wish to die before my time.
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