The Life of General Lafayette, Marquis of France, General in the United States Army, Etc
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The abyss of corruption, as it was fully displayed, startled for a moment but did not appal him. He calmly surveyed its depth, and with the same spirit which had borne him fearlessly amid the onset of battle prepared for the crisis beft^re him. He rose from his seat, and with dignified firm- ness, uttered his protest against the prevailing evils, and demanded redress. With stern rebuke he con- demned the system which had been so fatally practiced MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE. 235 by the government, and... with a courage not at all intimidated by the fact that a younger brother of the King was President of the Council, he exhibited the disorder to which this had led in all the public depart- ments. '' I repeat," he concluded, " with renewed confidence, the remark, that the millions which are dissipated, are collected by taxation, and that taxa- tion can only be justified by the real wants of the state ; — that the millions abandoned to peculation or avarice, are the fruits of the labor, the tears, and per- haps the blood, of the people ; — and that the compu- tation of unfortunate individuals, which has been ma^e for the purpose of realizing sums so heedlessly squandered, affords a frightful subject of consideration for the justice and goodness which, we feel convinced, are the natural sentiments of his majesty." ^- The reforms which Lafayette urged were too mo- mentous, and involved principles too novel, to imme- diately enlist in their execution, men who had grown gray in the dream that France could never be other- wise than she had been ; but he was unmoved by his comparative isolation.
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The abyss of corruption, as it was fully displayed, startled for a moment but did not appal him. He calmly surveyed its depth, and with the same spirit which had borne him fearlessly amid the onset of battle prepared for the crisis beft^re him. He rose from his seat, and with dignified firm- ness, uttered his protest against the prevailing evils, and demanded redress. With stern rebuke he con- demned the system which had been so fatally practiced MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE. 235 by the government, and... with a courage not at all intimidated by the fact that a younger brother of the King was President of the Council, he exhibited the disorder to which this had led in all the public depart- ments. '' I repeat," he concluded, " with renewed confidence, the remark, that the millions which are dissipated, are collected by taxation, and that taxa- tion can only be justified by the real wants of the state ; — that the millions abandoned to peculation or avarice, are the fruits of the labor, the tears, and per- haps the blood, of the people ; — and that the compu- tation of unfortunate individuals, which has been ma^e for the purpose of realizing sums so heedlessly squandered, affords a frightful subject of consideration for the justice and goodness which, we feel convinced, are the natural sentiments of his majesty." ^- The reforms which Lafayette urged were too mo- mentous, and involved principles too novel, to imme- diately enlist in their execution, men who had grown gray in the dream that France could never be other- wise than she had been ; but he was unmoved by his comparative isolation.
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