I cannot help, therefore, entreating you to maintain the same high heart, and to accomplish that which you have so worthily begun.

Be not deluded by false masks, mumming faces, and borrowed titles, which people assume for their own profit, persuading others that the King's service consists in the destruction of his subjects." While thus careful to offend no man's religious convictions, to startle no man's loyalty, he made skillful use of the general indignation felt at, the atrocities of the mutinous army.

This chord he struck boldly, powerfully, passionately, for he felt sure of the depth and strength of its vibrations.

In his address to the estates of Gelderland, he used vigorous language, inflaming and directing to a practical purpose the just wrath which was felt in that, as in every other province.

"I write to warn you," he said, "to seize this present opportunity.