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factions and the work of circumstances, as i'm
perious as fugitive: hence all were Vicious
But Gnce the 9th Brum aire we find an epocha.
the only one perhaps in the annals of the world,
to mediate, lheltered againit alarms; in order
to found the liberty of the nation upon fold
balls, aVowed by experience and by rea1on.--
After the peace of Amiens, Bonaparte could
choofe either republican or monarchical
lyftem he might have done what he thought
proper, without encountering the leaf orpo-
lition. The depoite Of liberty was confded
to his hands he had fworn to defend it. By
fulfilling his promife he would have accom-
Plifhed the expectation of the nation who udg-
ed him to be the only one capable of fov.ng
the great problem of public liberty in extern
five ftates he had covered him(elf with in
comparable glory. Ihftead of performing this
great work, what are we doing today 1t is
ProPoied to give him an ab1olute and heredi-
tary property of power, ofwhich he had re-
ceived but the administration.
1t is true that, antecedent to the 18th Bru-
MARE, the fate was falling into dinolution,
and that abiolute power dragged it from the
borders ofthe abytS: but what are we to infer
from that What all the world knows that
political bodies are 1ubjef to maadies which
can be cured but by vioient means that mo-
mentary dictatorship is iometmes requiiite to
lave liberty. The Romans, who were 70 ea-
lous oft, were however 1enGble of the necef-
lty OF that iuprcne power at intervals. tu,
becauie violent remedy has 1aved fck per-
ion, are we to adminilter to him every day
violent remedy Fabius, Cincinnatus, Cam,l-
us, have each fucceAively faved the Roman
liberty by abiolute power but it was by "trip
ping themlcves of that power as icon thy
could by retention of the power they would
have deltroyed liberty Cnfar was the trh
who wanted to retain it., and he fell victim
TO it; but liberty was annihilated for ever
Thus all that has been faid to this day upon
abiolute power, proves only the necefiity of a
momentary dictatorlhip in the crifis of fate,
but not of permanent and immoveable pova
er.
1t is not by the nature of the government
that the great republics fail in liability it is
becauie they are unprovided for tempefts it
is invariably the exaltation that prefdes at
their eftablifhment. There is but one that eff
fected the work of organized philolophy DUR
ing the calm, and that republic fubiiits full of
wifdom and vigour: This phenomenon is offer
d6y the United States Of america, 7Oho}e PROF
pey1ty daily increqles to the qAOmGnlent of all
other nations. Thps ii wasreierUed to the ne7u
woyldto convince the old that men can peaceably
yRbff nnder the regime Of liberty and equality.
Yes, | dare to lay down the principle that,
Whit we can efabliih new order of things,
without any fear from the influence of factions,
as the frlt conful was able to do, Especially af-
ter the peace at Amiens, and as he fill can do,
it is lels difficult to form republic without
anarchy, than to erect monarchy without def
potifm. For how can we conceive limita-
tion without Hutton, in a government of
which the chief has all the executive power
in his hands, and all the places and Offices to