(_See Appendix E_.)--Oh folly to think that plans of reason can prosper under such countenance! If this be the doom of France, what a monster would be the double-headed tyranny of Spain! It is immutably ordained that power, taken and exercised in contempt of right, never can bring forth good.

Wicked actions indeed have oftentimes happy issues: the benevolent economy of nature counter-working and diverting evil; and educing finally benefits from injuries, and turning curses to blessings.

But I am speaking of good in a direct course.

All good in this order--all moral good--begins and ends in reverence of right.

The whole Spanish People are to be treated not as a mighty multitude with feeling, will, and judgment; not as rational creatures;--but as objects without reason; in the language of human law, insuperably laid down not as Persons but as Things.