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Let men who wish to protect their invaluable rights ponder on these things, and let them at the same time, remember that no nation in which universal suffrage hath been allowed, hath remained free and happy.
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Daggett emphasizes the importance of protecting rights and warns that universal suffrage can lead to a loss of freedom and happiness.
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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.
Such is the constant termination of such revolutions, and shall we claim to be an exception?
Let not then the projector persuade us to adopt his theories with proofs of their danger thus glaring before our eyes.
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