If its form
now be no obstacle to such negotiation, I do not know why it was ever
so. Suppose that this government promised greater permanency than any of
the former, (a point on which I can form no judgment,) still a link is
wanting to couple the permanence of the government with the permanence
of the peace. On this not one word is said: nor can there be, in my
opinion. This deficiency is made up by strengthening the first ringlet
of the chain, that ought to be, but that is not, stretched to connect
the two propositions. All seems to be done, if we can make out that the
last French edition of Regicide is like to prove stable.
As a prognostic of this stability, it is said to be accepted by the
people. Here again I join issue with the fraternizers, and positively
deny the fact. Some submission or other has been obtained, by some means
or other, to every government that hitherto has been set up. And the
same submission would, by the same means, be obtained for any other
project that the wit or folly of man could possibly devise. The
Constitution of 1790 was universally received. The Constitution which
followed it, under the name of a Convention, was universally submitted
to.
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