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LIBERAL.
Annihilation to the trade of corruption.
An Englishman’s birthright: trial by jury.
Addition to our trade, multiplication
to our manufactures,
subtraction to taxes, and
reduction to places and pensions.
All the honest reformers of our country.
Britain: may the land
of our nativity ever be the abode of
freedom, and the birthplace
of heroes.
Britain’s annals:
may they never suffer a moral or political
blot.
Confusion to those who barter
the cause of their country for
sordid gain.
Confusion to those who, wearing
the mask of patriotism, pull
it off and desert the cause
of liberty in the hour of trial.
Confusion to those despots
who combine against the liberties
of mankind.
Disappointment to all those
who form expectations of places
and pensions on the ruin of
their country.
Everlasting life to the man
who gave the death-blow to the
slave trade.
Community, unity, navigation, and trade.
Faith in every kind of commerce.
Freedom to the oppressed, and slavery to the oppressors.
Freedom to all who dare contend for it.
Oblivion to all party rage.
Humanity to all created beings,
especially to our own species,
whether black or white.
No party except mankind.
May the meanest Briton scorn the highest slave.
Old England: and may
those who ill-use her be speedily kicked
off.
May Great Britain and Ireland
be ever equally distinguished by
their love of liberty and
true patriotism.
May every succeeding century
maintain the principles of the
glorious Revolution, enjoy
the blessings of them, and transmit
them to future ages unimpaired
and improved.
May the whole universe be
incorporated in one city, and every
inhabitant presented with
the freedom.
May Britons share the triumphs
of freedom, and ever contend
for the rights and liberties
of mankind.
May freedom’s fire take new birth at the grave of liberty.
May our country be, as it
has ever been, a secure asylum to
the unfortunate and oppressed.
High wages, and sense to keep them.
May the freedom of election
be preserved, the trial by jury
maintained, and the liberty
of the press secured to the latest
posterity.
May the tree of liberty flourish
round the globe, and every
human being partake of the
fruits.
May truth and liberty prevail throughout the world.
May all partial and impolitic taxes be abolished.
May Britons never have a tyrant
to oppose either in Church or
State.