STATE PAPERS. 759 
glory. They are sensible to their 
full extent of the advantages of 
equality. They hail, with blessings, 
the restoration ef peace; they re- 
ceive, with blessings, the re-esta- 
blishment of public worship. Jhese 
are the ties that bind down every 
heart to the state, and the consti- 
tution. 
» It is the duty of government to 
cherish and direét these auspicious 
dispositions. 
Other forms of worship have been 
regularly organized. Consistories 
wre formed of enlightened citizens, 
tried and acknowledged defenders of 
public order, ef civil and religious 
jiberty. 
» Public instruétion,. that indispen- 
sible support of society, is every 
where sought after with eagerness 
and alacrity. Several lyceums have 
already been, opened: already, as 
government had well foreseen, a 
number of private schools aspire to 
the rank of the secondary schools. 
~The whole body of citizens shew 
_their conviction, that there can be 
mo happiness without the light of 
education ; that, without talents and 
information, there can be no equa- 
dity, but that of misery and servi- 
tude. 
A military school is opened to re- 
eeiye the young defenders of the 
-eountry. Soldiers, they will learn 
.to support the life of camps, and en- 
dure the fatigues of war. By Jong 
habits of obedience, they will be 
trained up to the art of command- 
ing, and they will bring to the ar- 
Mies courage and discipline, united 
with talents and with knowledge. 
. In the lyceums, as well as in the 
Upilitary school, the youth of the 
epartments, newly incorporated 
with the republic, will live mingled, 
out anne distinction, with the 
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youths of old France. From. this. 
confusion of minds and manners,. 
from this communication of: habits 
and of dispositions, from this com= 
mixture of interests, of projects, © 
and of hopes, will spring up.that 
fraternity, which, of several. na. 
tions, will make but one people, 
destined by their position, by their 
courage, and by their virtues, to 
form the centre of union, and, the 
example of Europe. 
The national institute, which has 
its ascendency over public instruc. 
tion, has received a more uselul di- 
rection, and henceforward will ex- 
ert a more a¢tive influence over. the 
national chara¢ter, over the lan- 
guage of the country, and over the 
arts, sciences, and literature. 
In order to ensure the stability of 
our infant institutions, in order to 
remove from the eyes of the pub- 
lic the spectre of discord, which ap- 
peared to them in the periodical re- 
turn of eleétions to the supreme 
magistracy, the friends of the coun- 
try called for the consulate for life 
to be granted to the first magis~ 
trate. The people, upon being 
consulted, answered to their call, 
and the senate proclaimed the will 
of the people. 
The system of lists of eligibility 
could not resist the test of experi- 
ence, and the force of public opinion. 
The organization of the senate was 
incomplete. 
The national justice was left to be 
administered by tribunals without 
harmony, and without dependence 
on each other.. There was no au- 
thority to protect or to reform 
them; no tie of restraint, to sub- 
ject them to one common discipline. 
In fine, there was wanting~ to 
France, a power to reclaim .jus- 
tice itself, the power of granting 
3C “pardon. 
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