* The second story of the State House was occupied by the courts; and while the Continental Congress was in session below, the Provincial Assemblies met above.
The Principles of the Declaration, and their Effects.—Opinions of Raynal, Mirabeau, and Napoleon.
ism forth to the clear light, panoplied in the armor of absolute right. France was aroused, and turning in its bed of submission, like the Titans beneath old Ætna, to look for light and shook thrones, crumbled feudal altars, whereon equality was daily sacrificed, and so rent the vail of the temple of despotism, that the people saw plainly the fetters and instruments of unholy rule, huge and terrible, within the inner court.
They pulled down royalty, overturned distinctions, and gave the first impulse to the revolutions which have since spread from that focus to purify the political atmosphere of Europe. Back to our glorious manifesto the struggling nations look, and, when they wish to arraign their tyrants, that indictment is their text and guide. * Its specific charges against George the Third of course are irrelevant, but the great truths set forth have no limit in their application and appositeness.
"Throughout the world its voice is sounding!
Life and death are in its call!
Kings and thrones in dust confounding;