But in this parallel it is the cat that is at a distance, and the lions and tigers that are in our antechambers and our lobbies.  Algiers is not near; Algiers is not powerful; Algiers is not our neighbor; Algiers is not infectious.  Algiers, whatever it may be, is an old creation; and we have good data to calculate all the mischief to be apprehended from it.  When I find Algiers transferred to Calais, I will tell you what I think of that point.  In the mean time, the case quoted from the Algerine Reports will not apply as authority.  We shall put it out of court; and so far as that goes, let the counsel for the Jacobin peace take nothing by their motion.

When we voted, as you and I did, with many more whom you and I respect and love, to resist this enemy, we were providing for dangers that were direct, home, pressing, and not remote, contingent, uncertain, and formed upon loose analogies.  We judged of the danger with which we were menaced by Jacobin France from the whole tenor of her conduct, not from one or two doubtful or detached acts or expressions.  I not only concurred in the idea of combining with Europe in this war, but to the best of my power even stimulated ministers to that conjunction of interests and of efforts.  I joined them with all my soul, on the principles contained in that manly and masterly state-paper which I have two or three times referred to,[33] and may still more frequently hereafter.  The diplomatic collection never was more enriched than with this piece.  The historic facts justify every stroke of the master.  “Thus painters write their names at Co.”

Various persons may concur in the same measure on various grounds.  They may be various, without being contrary to or exclusive of each other.  I thought the insolent, unprovoked aggression of the Regicide upon our ally of Holland a good ground of war.  I think his manifest attempt to overturn the balance of Europe a good ground of war.  As a good ground of war I consider his declaration of war on his Majesty and his kingdom.  But though I have taken all these to my aid, I consider them as nothing more than as a sort of evidence to indicate the treasonable mind within.  Long before their acts of aggression and their declaration of war, the faction in France had assumed a form, had adopted a body of principles and maxims, and had regularly and systematically acted on them, by which she virtually had put herself in a posture which was in itself a declaration of war against mankind.

It is said by the Directory, in their several manifestoes, that we of the people are tumultuous for peace, and that ministers pretend negotiation to amuse us.  This they have learned from the language of many amongst ourselves, whose conversations have been one main cause of whatever extent the opinion for peace with Regicide may be.  But I, who think the ministers unfortunately to be but too serious in their proceedings, find myself obliged to say a little more on this subject of the popular opinion.