If my inquiries convince me that these complaints are well founded I will write to my friends in Madrid, since we have no representatives.

Meanwhile, believe me that the government needs a corps with strength enough to make itself respected and to enforce its authority." "Yes, sir, when the government is at war with the country.

But for the welfare of the government itself we must not have the people think that they are in opposition to authority.

Rather, if such were true, if we prefer force to prestige, we ought to take care to whom we grant this unlimited power, this authority.

So much power in the hands of men, ignorant men filled with passions, without moral training, of untried principles, is a weapon in the hands of a madman in a defenseless multitude.