“The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. ‘Tis not the affair
of a city, a county, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent- of
at least one eigth part of the habitable globe.
‘Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually
involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected even to
the end of time by the proceedings now. Now is the seed time of continental
union, faith and honor. The least fracture now will be like a name
engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak,
the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity would read it
in full grown characters”. Tom Paine.
Islander