There is a lesson in all this which it behooves every thinking man to
ponder.


NOTES


Note: The White Collection at the Cornell University library mentioned
in many of the following notes is described here:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/subjects/frrev.html

[1] A paper read before a meeting of Senators and Members of the House
of Representatives of both political parties, at Washington, April
12th, and before the Union League Club, at New York, April 13th, 1876,
and now (1914) revised and extended.

[2] For proof that the financial situation of France at that time was
by no means hopeless, see Storch, "Economie Politique," vol. iv,
p. 159.

[3] See Moniteur, sitting of April 10, 1790.

[4] Ibid., sitting of April 15, 1790.

[5] For details of this struggle, see Buchez and Roux, "Histoire
Parlementaire de la Révolution Française," vol. iii, pp. 364, 365,
404. For the wild utterances of Marat throughout this whole history,
see the full set of his "L'ami du peuple" in the President White
Collection of the Cornell University. For Bergasse's pamphlet and a