The following is from a speech given on February 11,1899, at the Lincoln Day classical scholar in America. Banquet. William Sanders Scarborough is often considered the first African American from The Party of Freedom and the Freedmen -A Reciprocal Duty 1 Since the world began freedom has been at war with all that savored of servitude. The sentiment of liberty is innate in every human. __ Freedom of speech and of action -the right of every man to be his own master-has ever been the inestimable privilege sought, the boon most craved. For this guerdon men have fought; for this they have even gladly died. 2 It was the unquenchable desire for liberty that brought the Pilgrim Fathers to Plymouth Rock. They knew that all that is highest and noblest in the human soul is fostered to its greatest development only under the blazing sunlight of freedom. And it was the same flame burning in the heart of the young nation planted on these Western shores that led to the ratification of the sentiment placed by the hand of Thomas Jefferson in the corner-stone of our American Independence: "We hold these truths to be self.evident-that all men are created free and equal,that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inallenable rights; that among and the pursuit of happiness." Here was heralded to the nation prophetic freedom for all mankind and for all generations. This question has two parts. Answer Part A and then answer Part B. Part A Which statement best describes an argument developed by the author? 1. Future generations will also value independence. 2. Slavery is an evil that must be defeated everywhere. 3. Freedom is the principle most valued by humankind. 4. Seeking happiness is what motivates people t leave home.