with the happiness of others, to personal security, or the legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of life, limbs, body, health, and reputation. We have equal rights to personal liberty, or unqualified freedom from restraint, so long as we do not interfere with the rights of others.—We have equal rights to private property: or the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land.* * Hobbes says, "For the similitude of the thoughts, and passions of one man, to the thoughts and passions of another, whosoever seeketh unto himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c. and upon what grounds; he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men, upon the like occasions. I say the similitude of passions, which are the same in all men, desire, fear, hope, &c. not the similitude of the objects of the passions, which are the things desired, feared, hoped, &c. for these the constitution, individual, and particular education do so vary, and they are so easy to be kept from our knowledge, that the characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts." RIGHTS OF ENGLISHMEN. THE rights of Englishmen consist in the rights to personal security, personal liberty, and private property, confirmed by Magna Charta, the Habeas Corpus Act, the Bill of Rights, the Act of Settlement, and secured by the powers and privileges of Parliament, the limitation of the King's prerogative, the right to apply to Courts of Justice, the right to petition the King or either House of Parliament, and the right to have suitable arms for defence. These are our rights, and this the true goddess of liberty to whom an Englishman erects an altar upon his hearth, and whom he teaches his young children to reverence. She is supported by order, and justice, and religion, and holds in her right hand the book of the law, which she doth see equally dealt out to the least of her worshippers. She sanctions not the crimes committed in her name. She sits not upon a throne built of bones and skulls, hoisting caps and flags, red with the blood of her victims. It was not to support a spurious idol that those great men contended, whose names are disgraced by being made the watchword of every ignorant faction, Hampden, Russell, and Sydney. It was not to maintain her trophies that our countrymen bravely |