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Why laugh at your folly---take all the offices and leave you to take care of yourselves.
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Daggett sarcastically critiques the folly of political leaders who take all the power for themselves.
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To revolutionize Connecticut it will be necessary to circulate, without any intermission, many gross falsehoods respecting the men in power, the judges, legislators and magistrates, and the acts and proceedings of the General Assembly.
The constitution of the United States was first attacked by an unconstitutional repeal of a law, and now the independence of the Supreme Court is to be destroyed, by impeachments of the judges.
It is to be recollected that the proposition is to change the vital principles of our government--to displace our present rulers and to fill their places with men who never enjoyed the public confidence.
Never till this year have we heard, or even suspected that our state was governed by lawless mobs.
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