The Continuance of Peace and Increasing Prosperity a Source of Consolation and Just Cause of Gratitude to the Inhabitants of the United States: A ... President, for Thanksgiving and Prayer Thro - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Continuance of Peace and Increasing Prosperity a Source of Consolation and Just Cause of Gratitude to the Inhabitants of the United States: A Sermon, Delivered February 19, 1795; Being a Day Set Apart by the President, for Thanksgiving and Prayer Through the United States

Equally unfriendly to the continuan'ce of liberty and equal rights are the popular foé1et1es efiabliihed in this country as checks on our government. Whatever may be their pretences to democratic principles, they confiitute a dange1ous arifiocracy. They are inconfif'tent w1th any permanent govern ment, as they tend to keep a country in a flare of perpetual y€v01utlpn. In the hifiory oi France for three years paf't we have melancholy evidence, that they put it in the power of a few popular and am bitious individuals to controul the operations of the reprefentatwesc of 1the people; and in effect to exer cife the Whole power of the government.

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