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r which your honorable body may see fit to give will descend with its weighty consequences to posterity. The voice of history is not less potent in its warnings against Executive assumption or ministerial abuse of power than the hopes of the future are dependent on your response. In view of the dangers which beset the country, your petitioners cannot better conclude their appeal than by adopting the significant language uttered by Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention, on the 7th January, 1788, when he exclaimed: "The real rock of political salvation is self-love — perpetuated from age to age — in every human breast, and manifested in every human action.--When the commons of England, in the manly language which became freemen, said to their king, You are our servant,--then was the temple of liberty complete. " It is with no view of avoiding danger, or shunning responsibilities, that your petitioners ask their discharge. Their hearts, hopes, energies, are all enlisted in