bins of France. They justify their partiality to those Jacobins
by the partiality which was shown by several here to the Colonies, and
they sanction their cry for peace with the Regicides of France by some
of our propositions for peace with the English in America.

This I do not mention as entering into the controversy how far they are
right or wrong in this parallel, but to show that they do make it, and
that they do consider themselves as of a party with the Jacobins of
France. You cannot forget their constant correspondence with the
Jacobins, whilst it was in their power to carry it on. When the
communication is again opened, the interrupted correspondence will
commence. We cannot be blind to the advantage which such a party affords
to Regicide France in all her views,--and, on the other hand, what an
advantage Regicide France holds out to the views of the republican party
in England. Slightly as they have considered their subject, I think this
can hardly have escaped the writers of political ephemerides for any
month or year. They have told us much of the amendment of the Regicides
of France, and of their returning honor and generosity. Have they told
anything of the reformation and of the returning loyalty of the Jacobins
of England? Have they told us of _their_ gradual softening towards
royalty? Have they told us what measures _they_ are taking for "putting
the crown in commission," and what approximations of any kind _they_ are
making towards the old Constitution of their country? Nothing of this.
The silence of these writers is dreadfully expressive. They dare not
touch the subject. But it is not annihilated by their silence, nor by
our indifference. It is but too plain that our Constitution cannot exist
with such a communication. Our humanity, our manners, our morals, our
religion, cannot stand with such a communication. The Constitution is
made by those things, and for those things: without them it cannot
exist; and without them it is no matter whether it exists or not.

It was an ingenious Parliamentary Christmas play, by which, in both
Houses, you anticipated the holidays; it was a relaxation from your
graver employment; it was a pleasant discussion you had, which part of
the family of the Constitution was the elder branch,--whether one part
did not exist prior to the others, and whether it might exist and
flourish, if "the others were cast into the fire."[12] In order to make
this Saturnalian amusement gene