David Daggett: “The men who are to stand in the places of our Trumbulls and our Ellsworths should not shrink from public investigation.”

If no benefits will result--if much evil will probably ensue--the course of duty and interest is plain.

Such is the constant termination of such revolutions, and shall we claim to be an exception?

We see industry and integrity rewarded with competence or wealth--we see intemperance and sloth followed with disease, loss of reputation and poverty.

Those who speak of a new Constitution, and of thorough reforms, should recollect that the promoters of these schemes in France, constantly amused the people with the idea that a new order of things--new rights--new principles, were to…