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.
Daggett reflects on the historical significance of the Constitution as a source of strength and inheritance for future generations.
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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…
If no benefits will result--if much evil will probably ensue--the course of duty and interest is plain.
We see industry and integrity rewarded with competence or wealth--we see intemperance and sloth followed with disease, loss of reputation and poverty.
Such is the constant termination of such revolutions, and shall we claim to be an exception?
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