The Spaniards have as great helps towards ensuring this, as ever were vouchsafed to a People.
What then is to be desired?
Nothing but that the Government and the higher orders of society should deal sincerely towards the middle class and the lower: I mean, that the general temper should be sincere .-- It is not required that every one should be disinterested, or zealous, or of one mind with his fellows.

Selfishness or slackness in individuals, and in certain bodies of men also (and at time's perhaps in all), have their use: else why should they exist?
Due circumspection and necessary activity, in those who are sound, could not otherwise maintain themselves.

The deficiencies in one quarter are more than made up by consequent overflowings in another.

'If my Neighbour fails,' says the true Patriot, 'more devolves upon me.' Discord and even treason are not, in a country situated as Spain is, the pure evils which, upon a superficial view, they appear to be.

Never are a people so livelily admonished of the love they bear their country, and of the pride which they have in their common parent, as when they hear of some parricidal attempt of a false brother.