I was denied my birthright, and rebelled.

Can society complain, when prostituting herself and depriving me of my rights, that I resisted her usurpation and denied her authority?
Shall she, doing wrong herself in the first instance, undertake to punish?
Surely not.

My rights were admitted--my superior capacity: but the people were rotten to the core; they had not even the virtue of truth to themselves.

They made their own governors of the vilest and the worst.

They willingly became slaves, and are punished in more ways than one.