David Daggett: “There is a class of men, very respectable for the sobriety of their habits, and their peaceful deportment, who always…”

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

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

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

But mark the issue --Not twelve years have elapsed before she has returned to an inglorious despotism--She has exchanged her Capets for a foreign usurper, with an incalculable loss, and here her history ends.