He could not agree that some dozen of men, among whom was his brother, had the right to assert, on the strength of what they were told by some hundreds of grandiloquent Volunteers who came to the city, that they and the newspapers expressed the will and the opinion of the people: an opinion, moreover, which found expression in vengeance and murder.
No podía estar conforme con que ellos, tomando en consideración lo que decían los charlatanes voluntarios que venían de las capitales, dijeran que éstos, junto con los periódicos, expresaban la voluntad y el pensamiento populares, pensamiento y voluntad que se basaban en la venganza y en la muerte.