desirable, they will vote for men who are in favor of it." Here the
Convention speak which all may understand---but lest they had not made
themselves sufficiently intelligible, they add, "We ask men of all
parties to attend punctually at proxies and to continue a contest of
votes till the great question whether this state shall have a
Constitution be settled finally and forever." Now, the plain English of
these sentences is this "We who are here assembled in Convention wish
the people of Connecticut to vote for such men, in future, for office,
as are in favor of a new Constitution---we have already declared that we
are in favor of such a Constitution---pray therefore vote for us and
continue" the context "till we succeed and then"---yes---my fellow-
citizens, and then, what will they do? Why laugh at your folly---take
all the offices and leave you to take care of yourselves. IF such would
not be their conduct then the sun will no more rise in the east.

Gentlemen of the convention pray cease your pretensions to promotion
till the people discover your merit. If you are honest, great and wise
you will certainly be noticed and promoted--if you are pygmy
politicians, the mushroom growth of an hour, dressed only with the
little brief authority of self created delegates to a self created
convention to aggrandise yourselves, then probably you will live with
little further notice, and it will only be said hereafter of you that
you belonged to an assembly convened at New-Haven on the 29th of August
1804, which sprang up in a day, chose major Judd chairman; and like
"Jonah's Gourd withered in a day."

In this convention the question was much discussed whether the address
should be made to the people or to the constituted authority of our
State, the legislature. Some honest republicans insisted that it was
proper to apply to the Legislature, but this was opposed by the young