"The rights of everyone shall be my rights.
"The Democratic Republic shall be the object of my worship. I will be its priest.
"Never will I seek to clothe myself in the imperial purple.
"Let my heart be withered within my breast on the day when I forget what I owe to you and to France.
"Let my lips be ever closed if I ever pronounce a word, a blasphemy, against the Republican sovereignty of the French people.
"Let me be accursed on the day when I allow the propagation, under cover of my name, of doctrines contrary to the democratic principle which ought to direct the government of the Republic.
* See "Vicissitudes of Families," by Sir Bernard Burke, pp.
294, 395. See also "The Autobiography of an Italian Rebel,"
by Riccalde, from p. 5.
"Let me be condemned to the pillory on the day when, a criminal and a traitor, I shall dare to lay a sacrilegious hand on the rights of the people—whether by fraud, with its consent, or by force and violence against it."—See Courier de la Sarthe.
And on December 2d, 1848, he addressed the following letter to the Editor of the Constitutionnel:-
"Monsieur,—Sachant qu'on a remarqué mon absence au vote pour l'expédition de Civita Vecchia, je crois devoir déclarer, que bien que résolu à appuyer toutes les dispositions propres à garantir la liberté et l'autorité du Souverain Pontife, je n'ai pu néanmoins approuver, par mon vote, unie démonstration militaire qui me semblait périlleuse, même pour les intérêts sacrés que Ton veut protéger, et faite pour compromettre la paix européene.