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the voice of the People in their legitimate, provincial, and local Assemblies might be addressed with effect to the several branches of the legislature, in support of such a measure; and would press with irresistible energy upon the probable reluctance of the legislature: while the whole of their collective influence, thus directed to the attainment of one established point, would be under the salutary controul of their only Constitutional Representatives.
Nor would it be possible for either House, however individual Members of it might be interested in the continuance of the present system, to withstand the force of general opinion: The will and power of the Nation, concentrated in the representatives of the People, have ever proved irresistible, when the expression of them has been duly called forth and wisely and steadily directed to one important point—
