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Another favorite scheme is to elevate to all the offices of importance men who have never enjoyed the public confidence.
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Daggett warns against promoting individuals to important offices who lack public confidence and experience.
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Another part of this expense will be the elevation of men to office who are unworthy of public confidence.
At one time men destitute of property are seduced by the alluring doctrine of universal suffrage--then the farmer is told that taxes are too high on land, and, with the same breath, the mechanic is sagely informed, that the poll tax should…
What could now be expected from these men but that they become immediately the creatures of a party--the tools of a faction?
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.
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