None of those Virginian patriots, who vindicated their separation from the British empire by proclaiming it to be a selfevident truth that all men were endowed by the Creator with an unalienable right to liberty, would have had the smallest scruple about shooting any negro slave who had laid claim to that unalienable right.
And, in the same manner, the Protestant masters of Ireland, while ostentatiously professing the political doctrines of Locke and Sidney, held that a people who spoke the Celtic tongue and heard mass could have no concern in those doctrines.

Molyneux questioned the supremacy of the English legislature.

Swift assailed, with the keenest ridicule and invective, every part of the system of government.

Lucas disquieted the administration of Lord Harrington.

Boyle overthrew the administration of the Duke of Dorset.