You give us no idea of any other "liberty" that we can secure to ourselves, even though "every citizen"--fifty millions and more of them--shall all keep "a vigilant watch and close scrutiny" upon the lawmakers. Now, inasmuch as the human race always have had all the "liberty" their lawmakers have seen fit to permit them to have; and inasmuch as, under your system of lawmaking, they always will have as much "liberty" as their lawmakers shall see fit to give them; and inasmuch as you apparently concede the right, which the lawmakers have always claimed, of killing all those who are not content with so much "liberty" as their lawmakers have seen fit to allow them,--it seems very plain that you have not added anything to our stock of knowledge on the subject of "our liberty." Leaving us thus, as you do, in as great darkness as we ever were, on this all-important subject of "our liberty," I think you ought to submit patiently to a little questioning on the part of those of us, who feel that all this lawmaking--each and every separate particle of it--is a violation of "our liberty." Will you, therefore, please tell us whether any, and, if any, how much, of that _natural_ liberty--of that natural, inherent, inalienable, _individual_ right to liberty--with which it has generally been supposed that God, or Nature, has endowed every human being, will be left to us, if the lawmakers are to continue, as you would have them do, the exercise of their arbitrary, irresponsible dominion over us? Are you prepared to answer that question? No. You appear to have never given a thought to any such question as that. I will therefore answer it for you. And my answer is, that from the moment it is conceded that any man, or body of men, whatever, under any pretence whatever, have the right to _make laws of their own invention_, and compel other men to obey them, every vestige of man's _natural_ and rightful liberty is denied him. That this is so is proved by the fact that _all_ a man's _natural_ rights stand upon one and the same basis, _viz._, that they are the gift of God, or Nature, to him, _as an individual_, for his own uses, and for his own happiness. If any one of these natural rights may be arbitrarily taken from him by other men, _all_ of them may be taken from him on the same reason. No one of these rights is any more sacred or inviolable in its nature, than are all the others. The denial of any one of these rights is therefore equivalent to a denial of all the others. The violation of any one of these rights, by lawmakers, is equivalent to the assertion of a right to violate all of them.