Free citizens—defend your rights! For six years, we fought to throw off the
tyranny of British rule. Now we face a new threat from within our borders.
The self- anointed aristocracy that gathered in Philadelphia last summer
has devised a scheme to deprive Americans of their liberties. They are
telling us that the American people are incapable of self-government and
that we must turn our public affairs over to the so-called “better classes.”
Is this the freedom for which we shed blood? Are we to trade the liberty
cap of the free citizen for the yoke of the serf? Never!