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Can any man doubt either the truth of this remark or the sincerity with which it is uttered?
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Daggett challenges the audience to consider the truth and sincerity of a previous remark.
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Yes, men who urged the people of Connecticut almost to rebellion on this account, stept into the places and, without a blush, took more from the people than their predecessors.
To that suffering nation turn your eyes and reflect that the mighty mass of woe under which they have groaned, was produced by an ambition, fierce, cruel and destructive as hell, and that an ambition alike terrible reigns every where.
Another part of this expense will be the elevation of men to office who are unworthy of public confidence.
My fellow citizens, look at the whole course of the lives of Judd, (I place him first on the list because he was chairman) of Bishop and of Wolcott, and say if they have not ever been under the influence of the most disinterested virtue…
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