Let us, with a firm resolution and a common accord, liberate these lands from the stranger.

Hand to hand let us accomplish a just and general peace.

As for myself, I present to you, with very, good affection, my person and all which I possess, assuring you that I shall regard all my labors and pains in times which are past, well bestowed, if God now grant me grace to see the desired end.

That this end will be reached, if you hold fast your resolution and take to heart the means which God presents to you, I feel to be absolutely certain." Such were the tenor and the motives of the documents which he scattered--broadcast at this crisis.

They were addressed to the estates of nearly every province.