Is it not clear that this whole proceeding originates in a pure unmixed affection for the people and a sacred regard to truth?
David Daggett: “Is it not clear that this whole proceeding originates in a pure unmixed affection for the people and a sacred regard to…”
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Daggett argues that the proceedings stem from genuine affection for the people and a commitment to truth.
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Such is the constant termination of such revolutions, and shall we claim to be an exception?
My fellow citizens human nature is the same here as in France--Then before you give ear to the songs of enchantment Count the Cost--Before you sell your birthright for a mess of pottage Count the Cost.
We see industry and integrity rewarded with competence or wealth--we see intemperance and sloth followed with disease, loss of reputation and poverty.
The people swore eternal hatred to Monarchy, and eternal fidelity to Constitutions, till, heaven, weary of their perjuries, sent them a despot in his wrath.





