stand-forth

Updated: May 12, 2025

If we are directed to turn our eyes to those who for years past have been held up in the unsuccessful nominations, and are told that these are to be substituted for the men who now guide our Councils, what are we to expect? An appeal may be made to every man not bewildered in this new and destructive madness he may be asked who among these men stand-forth with fair claims to public confidence?

David Daggett - Count the Cost : An Address to the People of Connecticut, On Sundry Political Subjects, and Particularly on the Proposition for a New Constitution