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Excerpt from Address of the Committee of the Late Grafton County Convention: To the Independent Electors of the County of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire
It 13 an unquestionable truth that a great and enlightened peep le can never be enslaved without their 0 vn consent. But the uniform language of history is, that the liberties and m dependence of nations haye, 111 all ages, been sacrificed to the gratification and adv ancement uf ambitious and unprincipled favorites. '1 be people have first been flattered, then com 1nanded; - they have first been corrupted - slavery is then their natural state. But a single instance, fellow-citizens, within the recolleco tionof us all still speaks to every intelligent friend to his country in a language which cannot be misunderstood, and ought not to be disregarde d - Republican France is a name still dear to the sy mpzz 1thies artd recollections of many - Re puhlican France, a land that but lately rung with the songs of liberty, and resounded from the mouths of infatuated mill ions, with the shouts of equality, is nflnw bending beneath the insupportable weight of a Military Despotism.' The songs of. Liberty are hushed firevern-the shouts of equality are drowned and 1931: amid the clangor of arms, the cries of suf feting innocence, and the resistless mandates ofa ferociou's and inexorable 'tyrant-and yet, fellow-citizens, it was a prostitutzen of the sacred nghts'of Freemen-it was a corrup tion bf the inestimable privilege on which our Republic is fqunded - it was a mere machery of the elective franchise that placed the Corsican Usurper 011 the throne of the Bourbons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
