He maintained, with reason, that the government of the Netherlands was a representative constitutional government, under the hereditary authority of the King.

To recover this constitution, to lift up these down-trodden rights, he set before them most vividly the necessity of union, "'Tis impossible," he said, "that a chariot should move evenly having its wheels unequally proportioned; and so must a confederation be broken to pieces, if there be not an equal obligation on all to tend to a common purpose." Union, close, fraternal, such as became provinces of a common origin and with similar laws, could alone save them from their fate.

Union against a common tyrant to save a common fatherland.

Union; by which differences of opinion should be tolerated, in order that a million of hearts should beat for a common purpose, a million hands work out, invincibly, a common salvation.

"'Tis hardly necessary," he said "to use many words in recommendation of union.