lawyers and the leaders of the party universally--full well they knew
that such a measure would not answer their purpose--Mobs never talk of
any authority except that of the sovereign people--To the sovereign
people they go, and to the sovereign people they appeal till a sovereign
people are cruelly insulted, cajoled and enslaved. Marat, Robespierre
and Bonaparte told the sovereign people that they were all in all till
they had robbed them of their dearest interests, and enchained them in
despotism, and they now mock them with such declarations as these,* "The
perfectability of human nature, the worst disease of man"-"the caprice
of elections must be destroyed"-"the people cannot govern themselves"

Having examined some of the plans or projects proposed for our adoption,
we will now estimate the probably cost attending them. It is to be
recollected that the proposition is to change the vital principles of
our government--to displace our present rulers and to fill their places
with men who never enjoyed the public confidence. To determine whether
these objects are worth accomplishing, it is necessary to COUNT THE
COST.

1. One part of this cost will be an increase of the violence of parties.
Men who regard their property, their liberty and their lives, will not
yield them a willing sacrifice to the demands of the ambitious and
unprincipled--men who faced danger and braved death during a seven years
war--men whose veins are warm with the blood of their venerable
ancestors who planted this happy state, and defended it amidst
innumerable hardships and calamities--men who deem their birthright
sacred--their own freedom valuable, and their children dear as their own
blood, will not calmly, nor cowardly suffer those who have no claims but
their impudence, to storm their fortress and to capture them. They will
defend it in all lawful ways.-Bishop and Wolcott, and a thousand other