fall back on the land holder.

Festivals under the pretence of honoring the election of Mr. Jefferson
and Mr. Burr, and of extolling the wisdom of the purchase of Louisiana,
but with a real design to blazen the fame of those who assume the
character of friends of the people that they may the more readily
destroy the most free and equitable Government in the world, are
continually holden, and the discontented, the factious, the ambitious
and the corrupt, are collected and flattered with declamations in the
various shapes of prayers, sermons and orations. Thus a people enjoying
the height of political prosperity are cajoled into a belief that men
without virtue, without the restraints of the gospel, without a particle
of real regard for their fellow men, are their best friends, and are
anxiously laboring to promote their good. Let such remember, that when
the Ethiopian shall change his skin, when the Leopard shall change his
spots, and when bitter fountains shall send forth sweet water, then will
those who flatter the people with their tongues, and deceive them with
their lips seek their happiness. Such are some of the measures resorted
to by those who have sworn in their wrath that Connecticut shall be
revolutionized. Finding all these ineffectual, and that the good sence
and virtue of Connecticut has hitherto opposed an inseparable barrier to
all their plans, they now exclaim Connecticut has no Constitution. Such
a gross absurdity could never have been promulgated till the mind was in
some degree prepared, by being accustomed to misrepresentation. This was
well known to Mr. Bishop, who has for years been in the habit of
disregarding moral obligation. In the year 1789 this Orator pronounced
several inflammatory invectives against the Constitution of the United
States, to which he was a bitter enemy till he obtained an office under
it worth three thousand dollars a year. At that time his language was,
The Constitution of Connecticut is the best in the world--it has grown