The founders of liberty were not slaves; and previous to fixing the prerogatives of royalty, they established the rights of the people.

It is the nation that is honoured in the person of its hereditary representative.

It is the nation who, after having created royalty, has invested it with a splendour that remounts to the source from whence it sprung, and gives it a double lustre." Ducastel, the president of the deputation sent to the king, spoke on the same side, but having inadvertently used the expression _sovereign_, in speaking of the king, and that the legislative power was vested in the Assembly and the king, this blasphemy and involuntary heresy raised a terrible storm in the chamber.

Every word of this nature seemed to them to threaten a counter-revolution; for they were still so near despotism, that they feared at each step again to fall into its toils.

The people was a slave, freed but yesterday, and who still trembled at the clank of his chains.