How dared you to destroy those establishments which enabled the people to dig wells and to cultivate the country like a garden, and then to leave the whole in the hands of your arbitrary and wicked Residents and their instruments, chosen without the least idea of government and without the least idea of protection?
Burke criticizes the destruction of essential institutions that supported agriculture and the subsequent mismanagement by arbitrary officials.
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