Ye reformers, look at France--behold the crimes which have risen up to demand the vengeance of God--see the woes which you have brought on the race of man, and tremble lest your works should follow you?

If this picture is too glaring, look at our sister states in which revolutions have been effected, and shew us the benefit.

But is the mechanic, the farmer, the merchant profited?

Is society enriched, or the public good promoted?

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

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…

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.

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.

On similar principles a wise people regard the conduct of other nations, and are solemnly admonished by their example.

Let not then the projector persuade us to adopt his theories with proofs of their danger thus glaring before our eyes.

The people swore eternal hatred to Monarchy, and eternal fidelity to Constitutions, till, heaven, weary of their perjuries, sent them a despot in his wrath.

My fellow citizens human nature is the same here as in France--Then before you give ear to the songs of enchantment Count the Cost--Before you sell your birthright for a mess of pottage Count the Cost.

The freemen of Connecticut are mighty when they arise in their strength.

Before you neglect an election Count the Cost --If the loss of your Vote should prove the loss of an election of a single man, then will you not have Counted the Cost.

FOR which of you intending to build a tower sitteth not down first and counteth the cost?

This question contains the following useful and important instruction: That no man or body of men should attempt the accomplishment of any great object without duly estimating the evils and benefits probably resulting from it.

An attempt is now making in this State to change the vital principles of our government, to remove from office all our present rulers, and to introduce a new order of things.

He will use no weapon but truth and truth will be regarded by all except those who love darkness rather than light.

Our natural advantages do not indeed promise such an accumulation of wealth as might satisfy that avarice which like the horse leach is constantly crying give--give--they are such however as will in ordinary cases, ensure to industry an…

Such are the excellent provisions of our laws, and the virtuous habits of our citizens, that schools of instruction in all useful knowledge are to be found in every place where they are needed.

In various places also flourishing academies are supported, in which the higher branches of science are taught, and our College is at once our ornament and our pride.

Religious instruction is also brought almost to every man's door, so that none can justly complain that they are denied the means of growing wiser and better.

By the liberality of the benevolent private libraries are every where found which, with the other sources of information, evince the superiority of our condition to that of any other people, in the means of gaining valuable knowledge.