"Speaking of Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts, he [Thomas Jefferson] had said, "God forbid we should even be twenty years without such a rebellion. What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is, to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood patriots and of tyrants." We venture the assertion that no sentiments more anarchical and dangerous can be found in any document of history from the period of Machiavelli's "Prince" to Dorr's Manifesto."
[THE AMERICAN WHIG REVIEW. "TO STAND BY THE CONSTITUTION." NEW SERIES, VOL. VI.--WHOLE VOL. XII. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED AT 118 NASSAU STREET. 1850. Pg. 42.]
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