But we should conceive ourselves to be unworthy members of the free and independent States of America, were we unconcernedly to see or to suffer any treasonable wound, public or private, directly or indirectly, to be given against the peace and safety of the same.
Written during the American Revolution, this passage asserts the responsibility of citizens to defend the newly independent states from internal threats.
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