S. The rudimental condition has secured these rights.
C. When?
S. When the American colonies were opposed by the mother country.
C. What rights did those colonies secure by war?
S. The rights of freedom.
C. Those rights were not secured by war.
S. Well, they were the results of war.
C. Nay; but of peace. When peace was ratified, the colonies were no longer engaged in war. Thou seest not that war gave to any mind a right, because it gave different things.
S. But was not that war justifiable?
C. How so?