Having allowed this right, can you question the propriety of exerting it at that particular period?
The urgencies of the State were such as required the immediate application of a remedy.

Even the clergy were conscious of such necessity; and aware, from the immunities they had long enjoyed, that the people would insist upon their bearing some share of the burden, offered of themselves a considerable portion of their superfluities.

The Assembly was true to justice, and refused to compromise the interests of the Nation by accepting as a satisfaction the insidious offerings of compulsive charity.

They enforced their right.

They took from the clergy a large share of their wealth, and applied it to the alleviation of the national misery.