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"Faction is the madness of the many othe benefit of the few.
"Frenzied be the head.....palsied be the hand....that attempts to dr
union." Gen. Eaton.

"Truths would you teach.....ċr save à sinking land:
"All fear.....none aid you.....and few understand" Pope.
" Every kingdom divided against itself, îs binught to DESOLATION.”

"In dissensione nulla salus conspicitur." Cæsar.

Matt. xii. 25.

"If we pay a proper regard to truth, we shall find it necessary not only
to condemn our friends upon some occasions, and commend our enemies, but
also to commend and condemn the same persons, as different circumstances
may require; for as it is not to be imagined, that those who are engaged in
great affairs, should always be pursuing false or mistaken measures; so nei.
ther is it probable that their conduct can at all times be exempt from error."

Polybius.
"Neither the law of Christianity nor of Reason requires us to prostrate our
national independence, freedom, property and honour at the feet of proud, tyrannical
oppressors." Address of Rev. Dr. David Osgood, May, 1798,

"Watch those ungrateful souls who murmur about taxation and oppression-
the burdens of government and religion. They have fellowship with our enemies.
They are traitors to God and Christianity." Address by the Rev. Dr. Elijah Pa-
rish, July 4, 1799.

"As citizens, we ought with one heart to cleave to and support our own govern;
ment. It is a government of our own forming, and administered by men of our own
chaice." Sermon by the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, May 9, 1798.

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PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.

Decr. 20, 1815,

May 1918.

Extract from Governor Strong's speech, 17th January, 1806.

"Changes in the constitution of government are more injurious than in the system of laws: even a small innovation may destroy its principles. The framers of the constitution had before them not only the forms which had been preferred by the several states; but those also, which, before that time, had been devised in other ages and nations. And though the repeated experiments which have since taken place in Europe, may suggest matter for warning, they afford nothing for. imitation. If, notwithstanding, it is found by experience, that the constitution operates very unequally, or the construction of any part is doubtful, amendments may be necessary to alter or explain it. But it is in vain to expect that all will be satisfied-Free governments admit of an endless variety of modifications; and the opinions entertained of their respective merits are equally variouse When the constitution was established, perhaps no man that became subject to it was perfectly pleased with every part. It was the result of mutual concession and such, indeed, must always be the case, when a form of government is voluntarily accepted by a community.

"In the minds of some men, there seems to be a restlessness, which renders them dissatisfied with any uniform course of things, and makes them eager in the pursuit of novelty. They abound in projects, and are ever meditating some funciful change in the plan of government, which their imaginations represent as useful. But men of great ambition are still more dangerous; they commonly make the fairest pretences to principles, though they are actuated only by self-interest. If the constitution or laws of their country present obstacles to the accomplishment of their wishes, they employ every artifice to alter or abolish them; and if individuals oppose their attempts, they are equally artful and solicitous to destroy their influence and render them odious to their fellow citizens.

"Few men, even in a prosperous coinmunity, are fully satisfied with their condition. A great part are easily induced to believe, that there is something wrong in the government or laws, which might be rectified to their advantage. They therefore readily enthraceny specious proposal to effect an alter ation. The crafty and anfbitions knowhow to avail themselves of this disposition to change, and encourage their followers to expect that the amendments they propose will perfectly suit their case, and produce the very blessings they wish in this way they not only effect their immedkite object, bat acquire an influence which enables them afterwards to accomplish the most disastrous innovations. Such persons encourage hopes that can never be realized, and excite complaints which the most wise and benevolent administration is unable to remove.

"Our forms of government are doubtless, like all other human institutions, imperfect; but they will insure the blessings of freedom to the citizens, and preserve their tranquillity, as long as they are virtuous; and no constitution that has been or can be formed will secure those blessings to a depraved and vicious people."

Extract from the answer of the Massachusetts Senate to the

Governor's Speech of 17th January, 1806.

"We shall look with a still more cautious eye upon every innovation attempted to be made upon our national constitution. The integrity, experience, and extensive information discovered by the illustrious characters, who framed that valuable instrument, and the series of public prosperity enjoyed under it, intitle it to our highest veneration; its excellence appears with still greater bustre, when compared with the ephemeral constitutions of many nations which have flitted across the eye in rapid succession, and then sunk into total oblivion. We are not insensible, that our form of government must be imperfect, as was the nature of its authors: but we recollect, at the same time, that any proposed alteration under the name of amendment is liable to the same imperfection.

"Believing therefore that the principles of the constitution are as well adjusted as human infirmity will permit, and that a small innovation may essentially pervert its original tendency, we shall exert ourselves to preserve it in its present form, except in cases where its operation shall be found extremely unequal and oppressive.”·

(AS A MARK OF GRATITUDE FOR

INESTIMABLE BLESSINGS ENJOYED, IN

LIBERTY OF PERSON, LIBERTY OF PROPERTY, AND LIBERTY

OF OPINIONS,

TO A DEGREE NEVER EXCEEDED IN THE WORLD,)

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

TO A BELOVED BUT BLEEDING COUNTRY,

TORN IN PIECES

BY

FACTIOUS, DESPERATE, CONVULSIVE, AND RUINOUS
STRUGGLES FOR POWER.

MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS,

WHO NEITHER HOLD NOR SEEK OFFICE;

BUT WHO ARE MADE THE INSTRUMENTS OF THOSE

WHO DO SEEK THEM:

AND WHO, WHILE A FOREIGN ENEMY PRESSES

AT THEIR DOORS,

ARE ENFEEBLED AND KEPT FROM UNION,

TO GRATIFY THE AMBITION OF

A FEW MEN,

(NOT ONE IN FIVE THOUSAND OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY)·

INTO A COMMUNITY, WHICH, DRUGGED INTO

A DEATH-LIKE STUPOR,

WITH UNPARALLELED APATHY BEHOLDS

THE

PILLARS OF THE GOVERNMENT TEARING AWAY;

THE NATION

NEARLY PROSTRATE AT THE FEET OF A RUTHLESS FOE;

ANARCHY RAPIDLY APPROACHING;

A NUMBER OF AMBITIOUS LEADERS, REGARDLESS

OF THE

COMMON DANGER,

STRUGGLING TO SEIZE UPON THE GOVERNMENT;

AND

APPARENTLY HETË MINED. THE COUNTRY SHALL GO TO

PERDITION,

UNLESS THEY CAN POSSESS THEMSELVES OF POWER;

AND, WITH THIS VIEW, OPPOSING AND DEFEATING

EVERY MEASURE,

CALCULATED TO INSURE SALVATION.

APPEAL TO THE PATRIOTISM,

THE HONOUR, THE FEELING, THE SELF-INTEREST OF YOUR

READERS,

TO SAVE A NOBLE NATION FROM RUIN.

Philad. Jan. 4, 1815.