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otter It wanted .to their coOrton, at first will
grow out of their own progreis. It is the honour
of the present age; the hope and the model of fu-.
ture ages 1
" Sire, the first rank ,amongst the
_greatest men
that Win done honour to the earth,, is reserved for
the founders of Empires. Those who have ruined
them haVe ...enjoyed but a fatal glory ;. those who
have suffered them
.to fall to ruin are every. where
objeas of reproach. Honour to those who raise
them! They are not only the creators 'of liajioos;
abut they seem their continuance by laws which be.
come the inheritance of futurity. We .'owe this
treasure to, youf Imperial Majesty ; and France
proportions the measure of those thanks, which the
Conservative Senate now presents to you in its Omit,
to the magnitude of this blessing.
as his pure Republic -had been possible in Prance,
We cannot doubt -that you would, have -'sykshed, to
have the hont;iirof estahlisking it ; and if it were
possible,- we should' never be exonerated from' the
guilt of not having proposed it to a. man having
power sufficient to realize the idea of it; personally
great enough nut to need a sceptre,* and. generous
enough to sacrifice his own intarests to the inter.
--eats of his Country. Though, like LYCURGUS.
• you should have to banish yourself from that Court..
try which you would have organized, you would
rot have 'hesitated. Your profound meditatiooi
• baveheen more than once diretied to this great-pro,
blem is but this problem was not ,to be solved even
by your. genius.
141 Satierfietal minds, 'frock with the ascendikcy
Itthich_ao 'much success and glory so happily
ed for you over the spirit of the nation, have fan.
pied, that you, had it in your power .to give it at
discretion a popular Gov ()
ernment ea Monarchical
Itegirne. • There eras no medium : not a ioullVish.
ed for Aristocracy in France': bUt the Legislature
ought to take men such as they are, and to give
- them, not the most perfed Laws that could be
Yised, but., like Solon, the best they can bear.
Though the chisel of a great artist forms at pleasure
out of a block of marble either a 'Fripod or a God,
the'hody of a nation cannot be modelled on the same
principle. It is true, Sire, that yitur life ii a tissue
ref prodigies: but though ybu might have bent the
nature of things and tiie character of men to such a
. Pitch, as to cast the'masi,es of France once More into
the mould of Democracy h wonder would have been
but 4 transient illusion : should we have Concurred,
in it, we should only have forged chains for poste.
City. •
" When. ourikepresentatiyes, placed on the ruins
or the Throne, be•li?ved they could establish' a Re.
public, their intepii.ms wire: pure : h-fore sad 'ex.
perience released tiwin farm the,encinoitment, they-
Sincerely won- hioied that ,cielusive phantom, which'
.they.► ‘ok for 4,414. W,,-cart speak an'error.
by which we base been .I.i24leti for a tuotnento..—
Alas who Could avoid it.? l'he pOpular torrent hue.
tied along the most ilidifferrot- in Spiteror cheat-
- . •
it is Nair,' that the ancient Persians, in order to
convince tliepeople of the terrible danger of an
abuse of Liberty, 'used to employ' it very eitraortlif
vary citipm they used to in,:enlate themselves for
a short Time with *plague of. P.:tificalll'odies,r-
ttnen any 014111,4 IC logs died, fiyeLy,te„;s ere bpitt:
let anjtchy,,, without sorb tit y or laws. Liceolifuis.
Peas was neither restrained the:, 'nor punishe.l, after-
Wards.; they
,Were five days .given up to the spirit'
of vengeance,. to exceSs, to violence; in a word,- they
were five days of Revolution, 'Phis. proof, ,it is
said; used to make the people return with much joy
to submission to their Prince.
"'After flutfitationa.intire rerrible.than than. of a
.troubled sea, it was thought that an infa Uible
Thedy been, discovered for popular convulsion.
In a Polygarchy. The depoiiring of authority in
the hands of many, was better than the absence .or
.the disperlion of thissautlsori-ty ;; hut dialing bpi.:
tits, and' opposite will a, could not he included in the
same bodyp.ai. the, 10'atlicheans used to place two con.
teary principles ibelheadof the Unwerae. The.
attuggie between these two principles would have.
annihilated France,. if 'the Course that has beeo taken
had not been adopted, to return to a, More .coneen.
• irated Tower. This; it is, that ..has consecrated
to eternity the epoch' of the 9th of November.
It is iftisi, Sire that brings 'hack and, attaches
to you such of the Republicans.wlivits patriot:4m was
most fervent and zealous. They were confirmed in
.their lutrFea the throne by
.their atitach.
merit to the interests of the petiole and the:ardent. de.
sire of the public good. Their ideas have btett
allzed only
by pour 'Government ; out of conceit
with their chimera, and*
brought back by you to
the reality; they are Well itirtvinced that it was Stn.possible to think 'seriously of establishing a.lttpub.
properly so called; amongst *a people attached.
tolVloriarcbi by ilieic wants, liy,instino;and by
the fyice of 'a. habit 'which'nothing can overcome.
-'Yes,.Sire, On this pbint therein hut one santimentr,—'
yes, the Government of a single person is to so vast
a Country, what the aortae of PALioss wail formerly
to the TiOjans-..rbi being deprived of it thirruin
Was i.eceierated.
" But Still this is not enough. The unity of the
,Ernpfre is, like the bundle of twigs, the aggregate
Of its, power;' but, likeohetwito of 'the untied
bundle, the parts would soon be,. diSunited and •
broken, if the hereditary lUcCCis2n to the ogee/gate '
• did not secure the hood. An order ofsuccesattio,
previonsly determined, is the firmest: support -of. a '
Monarchical Government. So, by the election even ,
*EMperiar,'.the Senate and the Pea.
?le have deprived themselvei of the right of ele I.
future, as lolig as thOse glorious lines shall
whist to which ihey*otansfer the exclu'ilve right
13 the empire. Itris'a grear deposit of trust, con-
, stewed by the Law of Nations, the .necessity of
~t'lttch has been felt by the nation,.in order to selieve
itself fruit guarding: against any omission, or .the
aPPrehenston of troubles in ibis
,delegation of its
.supreme power. 4
. A
- snincligst the'
happy tritons. of the Law of Sue.'
Cession, such as the French have just adopted, the.
apcity of the great people'has dotinguished,two
rincipal advantages ; first, that 'a
dynasty .raised
jsY
Liberty
wild be faithful to its principle r. there '
no I.nstanee of a river fi• win back to its source.
13'48614 a new source of stabilityfor public-credit..,
both i.ritclually and externally, is, to be .ext e"
/led