What wonder that they became dizzy at their sudden elevation! What wonder that blood flowed in rivers!--that dissension and faction rent them asunder-- that a fearful anarchy soon reigned triumphant--or that the confused and troubled drama closed in the iron rule of a military conqueror--the Man of Destiny! Let not this lesson be lost upon the world.

Let a people who would enjoy freedom, learn to merit the boon by the study of its principles and a preparation to exercise its privileges, under those salutary restraints which man can never throw off and be happy! The odium excited throughout Europe by the excesses of the French Revolution, was heaped without measure upon the American people.

They were charged with the origin of the misrule which convulsed France, and filled the eastern hemisphere with alarm: and were tauntingly pointed to the crude theories promulgated by French democracy, and the failure of their phrenzied efforts to establish an enlightened and permanent Republic, as conclusive evidence that self-government, among any people, was a mere Utopian dream, which could never be realized.
The establishment of a republican government in America, had not been relished by the monarchies of Europe.

They looked upon it with distrust, as a precedent dangerous to them in the highest degree.

The succor which Louis XVI.