Yes, you yourselves cause the evils of which you complain; yourselves encourage the tyrants, by a base adulation of their power, by an imprudent admiration of their false beneficence, by servility in obedience, by licentiousness in liberty, and by a credulous reception of every imposition.

On whom shall you wreak vengeance for the faults committed by your own ignorance and cupidity ?" And the people, struck with confusion, remained in mournful silence..