INFLUENCES OF DEMOCRACY

ON

LIBERTY, PROPERTY,

AND

THE HAPPINESS OF SOCIETY,

CONSIDERED.

BY AN AMERICAN,

FORMERLY MEMBER OF CONGRESS.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

AN INTRODUCTION,

BY

HENRY EWBANK, Esq.

Anarchy and government are both before us, and in our choice. If we fall, we fall by
our folly, not our fate; and we shall evince to the astonished world, of how
small influence to produce national happiness are the fairest gifts of heaven, a
healthy climate, a fruitful soil, and inestimable laws, when they are conferred
upon a frivolous, perverse, and ungrateful generation.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND.

M.DCCC.XXXV.

Libr.
Worre
9-21-37
34706

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER.

INTRODUCTION

I. Democratic Ascendancy, destructive of Liberty,

and all Hope of its Restoration

III. A vigorous Exertion of Lawful Authority, not

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89

IX. The Resources of a free and stable Government,

contrasted with those of a revolutionary

Government.

172

X. An Appeal to Patriotism, against the Designs of

the Destructives

177

XI. A Voice of Warning

181

XII. Character of Brutus; or, the Assassination of

Tyrants both unlawful and unproductive of

Advantage

XIII. The Abolition of a National Debt no less impolitic

XIV. The Liberty of the Press not the main Safeguard

of the British Constitution

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