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 up with the people, and is fitted to their condition.—­Now this consistent man who is endeavoring to gull the people that he may successfully tyrannize over them, avows that they are without a Constitution.

My fellow citizens, examine this head of clamor with candor, read the solemn declaration of Washington in the title page, attend to the following remarks, and then tell me if you do not perceive in this project, with the manner in which it is supported and attempted to be accomplished, enough of the revolutionary spirit of France, to excite the indignation of every real friend to the peace and happiness of Connecticut.

1.  If there be no Constitution in Connecticut then your Huntingtons, your Trumbulls, your Shermans, your Wolcotts and your Davenports, with many other worthies, who were your defence in war, and your ornament in peace, and who are now sleeping with their fathers, were wicked usurpers —­they ruled their fellow citizens without authority—­they were tyrants.  Let Judd and Bishop approach the sepulchures of these venerable men—­let them lift the covering from these venerable ashes and in the face of heaven pronounce them tyrants!!  Could you see them approach their dust with such language on their tongues, you would see them retreat with horrible confusion from these relicks of departed worth.

2.  The present rulers are acting also without authority, and their laws are void—­then you are already in the midst of anarchy and wild misrule —­then has no man a title to an inch of land, and you are ready for an equal of division of property—­all protection of life and liberty is at an end, and the will of a mob is now to prevail.

3.  If indeed there is no Constitution, then the oath which has been administered in your freemen’s meetings for twenty years, by which each man has sworn “to be true and faithful to the Constitution” of the state, is worse than impious profanation of the name of God—­then your judges, magistrates and jurors have stripped men of their property, condemned some to Newgate and others to the Post, the Pillory and the Gallows without a warrant, and are therefore murderers.—­O thou God of order in this our condition!!!  But,