Friends, brethren, and countrymen, If the memory of your ancestors, your own honour, and that of your posterity, possess as I trust they do, a just affection in your bosoms, let me implore you by all those sacred regards, solemnly to reflect on the importance of the part each of you are to act to-morrow. Consider, O! consider the irrevocable disgrace, the lasting infamy that must stain the reputation of Pennsylvania to the latest ages, should her generous free-born sons call into her Assembly, the author of Americanus, the most daring, the most detestable advocate for American slavery, that this populous continent, amongst all its children, ever produced. [electronic resource]