David Daggett: “Who commissioned these gentlemen for this important labor of providing them with a Constitution?”

Those who speak of a new Constitution, and of thorough reforms, should recollect that the promoters of these schemes in France, constantly amused the people with the idea that a new order of things--new rights--new principles, were to…

Let not then the projector persuade us to adopt his theories with proofs of their danger thus glaring before our eyes.

We see industry and integrity rewarded with competence or wealth--we see intemperance and sloth followed with disease, loss of reputation and poverty.

The freemen of Connecticut are mighty when they arise in their strength.