My fellow citizens—WE have a government which has protected us a Century and an half—we have enjoyed unexampled prosperity.—WE may transmit a glorious inheritance to posterity.—The writer has children dear to him as his own blood—these children are to him a sacred deposit—He can, with confidence, commit their political interests to such a government as Connecticut has enjoyed.—He is persuaded that if they feel the iron hand of despotism, it will not be from such a government, and such rulers as we now possess—Before he yields his own, and their dear, and inestimable rights to the wild projects of the reformers of this age, he is firmly resolved to sit down and Count the Cost, and he entreats his fellow citizens to adopt similar resolutions.
APPENDIX.
A View of the Fiscal Concerns of Connecticut.
Capital Funds of the Civil List. Dols. Cts. Funded 6 per cent. Stock, (real capital) - 209,273 83 Deferred —do. - do. - do. - - 148,632 83 Funded 3 per cent. do. - - - 50,038 11 Bank Stock - - - - - 44,725 __________ 425,669 77 __________
School Funds. Bonds collaterally secured - - 1,020,542 27 New Lands received in payment of School Bonds, price at which received, 194,000 Funded 6 per cent. Stock, (real capital) 14,048 Deferred —do. - do. -do. - - - 5,455 7 Funded 3 per cent. do. - - - - 4,570 95 ___________ 1,238,617 29 ___________
Annual Expense of Government. Viz. Salaries of Executive Officers, - - 8,630 Debentures and Contingent expenses of the Legislature for two Sessions, - 17,100 Debenture of the Supreme Court of Errors, 550 Judicial expenses, - - - - 6,100 Expense of Newgate prison, - - - 4,000 Charges of Paupers and Vagrants, - - 4,500 Allowance of 2 dollars on the 1000 of the list being a draw-back from the State Tax, 12,000 Contingent Expenses, comprising all other charges of Government, - - - 6,200 ____________ 59,080 ____________
Means for defraying the annual expense of the Civil List.
Viz.
Annual Interest on the above-mentioned Stock
appertaining to the Civil List Funds, 26,553 54
Duties on Civil Processes, - - 5,700
Annual Tax of 7 Mills on the Dollar,
neat amount, - 35,700
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67,953 54
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N.B. One eighth part of all the State taxes and one tenth part of all rateable polls are abated for the relief of the indigent.
The yearly Interest of the whole School Funds would be - 74,179 88 Deduct the Interest on that part which lies in lands, and also on those Bonds whereon Interest has not yet commenced, amounts to 7, 324 12
N.B. Several Bonds draw Interest in present year, which were not on Interest last year.