mercenary hirelings may attempt to subdue or terrify them--a proud and
haughty leader who under the guise of patriotism, is attempting to
undermine the happiness of the best regulated and freest State in the
Union, with a thousand sycophants, conspiring to bring us under the yoke
of Virginia, may exhaust their ingenuity and malice, still Connecticut
will remain unshaken. She will never crouch like Isachar to chains and
fetters while any portion of the noble spirit of her ancestors who
transmitted this fair inheritance at a mighty expense, remains to impel
them to noble exertions.--It is ardently to be wished that the passions
of those who seek to overturn the venerable institutions of Connecticut,
my subside, and that a spirit of reconciliation and moderation may
succeed to that madness which threatens our peace.--If however the
controversy is to be continued and a mob insist on the right to rule,
freemen will protect their lives and their liberties.--And is not the
peace and tranquility of the State of importance? We have been told with
more truth than sincerity that "life itself is a dreary thing" without
"harmony in social intercourse." Happy would it have been if the author
of that just and pertinent remark had not contributed more than any
other man in the United States to embitter parties, and to render life
indeed a "dreary thing."

2. Another item in the expense of accomplishing these projects, is a
corruption of morals. To revolutionize Connecticut it will be necessary
to circulate, without any intermission, many gross falsehoods respecting
the men in power, the judges, legislators and magistrates, and the acts
and proceedings of the General Assembly. We have seen the columns of the
Mercury and the Republican Farmer filled with vile libels.--WE have seen
Abraham Bishop followed by hundreds enter a temple devoted to the
service of God, and we have heard him there utter the most malignant
slanders on the Clergy, the Legislature and the Courts of law.--We have