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Some of our citizens, in the height of political prosperity, are seeking to destroy an order of things which has prevailed an hundred and fifty years, and throw themselves into the arms of projectors and reformers.
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Daggett criticizes citizens who seek to disrupt a long-standing order for the sake of new political ideas.
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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.
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.
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