...indispensable duty to lay hold on every means in our power to preserve and recover the much injured Constitution of our country; and conscious at the same time of no alternative between the horrours of slavery, or the carnage and desolation of a civil war, but a suspension of all commercial...

...Power to preferve and recover the much injured Conftirufion of our Country ; and confcious at the fame Time of no Alternative between the Horrors of Slavery, or the Carnage and Defolation of a civil War, but a Sufpenhoa of all commercial Intercourfe with the Iu|md of Great-Britain,...