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Shall a party avowing this sentiment and seeking by every artifice to give it effect, receive the support of a people who have derived such substantial benefits from these institutions?
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gutenberg.orgDavid Daggett: “Shall a party avowing this sentiment and seeking by every artifice to give it effect, receive the support of a people…”
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Daggett questions whether a party that seeks to undermine established institutions deserves the support of the people who benefit from them.
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She boldly proclaimed herself the example of the world, and all nations were invited to see her glory, and enjoy her blessed liberty and her glorious equality.
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.
On similar principles a wise people regard the conduct of other nations, and are solemnly admonished by their example.
We see industry and integrity rewarded with competence or wealth--we see intemperance and sloth followed with disease, loss of reputation and poverty.
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