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THE

RIGHTS OF MAN

TO PROPERTY!

BEING A PROPOSITION

TO MAKE IT EQUAL AMONG THE ADULTS

OF THE

PRESENT GENERATION:

AND TO PROVIDE FOR ITS EQUAL TRANSMISSION TO EVERY INDIVIDUAL OF EACH SUCCEEDING GENERATION, ON ARRIVING AT THE AGE OF MATURITY.

ADDRESSED TO THE

CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, PARTICULARLY, AND TO

the people of other States and Nations, generally.

“I hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; and that among these are life, liberty and property.”—Altered from Mr. Jefferson's Declaration of American Independence.

BY THOMAS SKIDMORE.

New-York: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY ALEXANDER MING, JR. 106 Beekman-street, 1829.