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# Sunday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/33521/
- Published: 2014-08-03T11:48:22.000Z
- Updated: 2014-08-03T11:48:22.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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A Random Passage

I've been tipping my reading toe into the works of the Anti-Federalists, those nervous souls who saw much mischief behind the proposed U.S. Constitution. I've been favorably impressed by some of it, like this passage from the Maryland Farmer:

> I have either read or heard this truth, which the Americans should never forget: That **the silence of historians is the surest record of the happiness of a people**. The Swiss have been four hundred years the envy of mankind, and there is yet scarcely an history of their nation. What is history, but a disgusting and painful detail of the butcheries of conquerors, and the woeful calamities of the conquered?