Our natural advantages do not indeed promise such an accumulation of wealth as might satisfy that avarice which like the horse leach is constantly crying give--give--they are such however as will in ordinary cases, ensure to industry an ample reward and this should satisfy a virtuous mind.
Daggett reflects on the balance between wealth and virtue, arguing that hard work is rewarded in Connecticut.
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On similar principles a wise people regard the conduct of other nations, and are solemnly admonished by their example.
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.
Such is the constant termination of such revolutions, and shall we claim to be an exception?
Before you neglect an election Count the Cost --If the loss of your Vote should prove the loss of an election of a single man, then will you not have Counted the Cost.
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