We have not yet forgotten the wormwood and gall of the last revolution.
"We hope you will steer clear of any of the difficulties of the contest that is about to take place.

We wish you to be very prudent and guarded in all your conversation and actions and not to make yourself a party man on either side.

Have your opinions, but have them to yourself, and be sure you do not commit them to paper.

It may do you great injury either on one side or the other, and you are not in your present situation as a politician but as an artist." In this same letter his father adds:-- "The die is cast and our country plunged in war....

There is great opposition to it in the country.