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Excerpt from Republican Address to the Free Men of Connecticut
I 3 J of all that gives to man a valuable preeminence above the brutes, andjullify-themfelves by the mod cruel, the molt degrading of' calumnies by afferting in fhort, that the Divinity has given to man no valuable pre-eminence above the brutes.
Happy would it have been for us if this monllrous theory had been confined to that country which gave it birth. In europe, as the multitude have been compelled to perform the part of beafis of burden, there it feems almofl innocent to fpeak of them as fuch. Herein America, one would have thought that difcretion, if not a fenfe of jullice, might have protected us from the infult. But inordinate ambition is the growth of all countries, and in all countries it jullifies its depredations by fimilar pretexts.
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