Again, it is insisted by those who oppose universal suffrage, and the reader is desired to notice the remark with attention, that no community can be safe unless the power of elections resides principally with the great body of the landholders.
Daggett emphasizes the belief that a community's safety relies on landholders having electoral power.
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It was to our fathers like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land--it has enabled them to transmit to us a fair and glorious inheritance--if we suffer revolutionists to rob us of this birth right "then we are bastards and not sons.
Is it not clear that this whole proceeding originates in a pure unmixed affection for the people and a sacred regard to truth?
In the mean time all subordinate tribunals will partake of the same character.--Thus instead of a government of laws, there will be the tyranny of a desperate faction.--Let no one reply that there is no danger of such evils in Connecticut.
Can any man doubt either the truth of this remark or the sincerity with which it is uttered?
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