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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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