They flatter themselves, it seems, that the friendly habits formed during their original partnership of iniquity, a similarity of character, and a conformity in the groundwork of their principles, might facilitate their conversion, and gain them over to some recognition of royalty.
Burke describes the misguided belief that past alliances in wrongdoing could lead to reconciliation.
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They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.
The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.
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