The feelings of all mankind must be shocked by the proposition that, as soon as a King, however clear his title, however wise and good his administration, is expelled by traitors, all his servants are bound to abandon him, and to range themselves on the side of his enemies.

In all ages and nations, fidelity to a good cause in adversity had been regarded as a virtue.

In all ages and nations, the politician whose practice was always to be on the side which was uppermost had been despised.

This new Toryism was worse than Whiggism.

To break through the ties of allegiance because the Sovereign was a tyrant was doubtless a very great sin: but it was a sin for which specious names and pretexts might be found, and into which a brave and generous man, not instructed in divine truth and guarded by divine grace, might easily fall.