...commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it." In 1775, the same Congress solemnly denied that " the divine Author of our existence intended...absolute property in, and unbounded power over others." " In the Congress of 1776, the Declaration of Independence was published-— commending itself to the...

...setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms. IF it was possible for men, who exercise their reason to believe, that the divine Author of...the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others, marked out by his infinite goodness and wisdom, as the objects of a...