ABSTRACT
Indignity Bill has been carried hitherto with triumphant majorities, on the avowed principle, that one encroachment upon liberty most lead to another, and that a suspension of one part of the legal rights must be followed by a temporary annihilation of the whole. It is the interests of Governments to keep the people in a state of vassalage—to prevent the expression of their sentiments, and the exercise and improvement of their understanding, by all the means in their power. The errors of the people are the crimes of Governments. They apply remedies to lingering diseases, and when they get sudden power in their hands, frighten their enemies, and wound themselves with it. A vigorous war is carried on throughout a great part of Germany, against the claims and pretensions of the Nobles; and the period is probably not far distant, when the Caste System, which is so much at variance with the principles of good government, will be completely overturned.
