I defy even his acuteness and ingenuity to show me any
one point in which the cases differ, except that it is plainly more
necessary in Europe than in America. Indeed, the further we trace the
details of the proposed peace, the more your Lordship will be satisfied
that I have not been guilty of any abuse of terms, when I use
indiscriminately (as I always do, in speaking of arrangements with
Regicide) the words peace and fraternity. An analogy between our
interior governments must be the consequence. The noble negotiator sees
it as well as I do. I deprecate this Jacobin interior analogy. But
hereafter, perhaps, I may say a good deal more upon this part of the
subject.
The noble lord insists on very little more than on the excellence of
their Constitution, the hope of their dwindling into little republics,
and this close copartnership in government. I hear of others, indeed,
that offer by other arguments to reconcile us to this peace and
fraternity. The Regicides, they say, have renounced the creed of the
Rights of Man, and declared equality a chimera. This is still more
strange than all the rest. They have apostatized from their apostasy.
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