text:  These men must have seen that their own power and importance and even their security against the caprices of their sovereign could not long be preserved--that they were about to be subjected as well as governed--to be deprived of all power to resist the oppressions of their own government because its will was enforced by an army which had no sympathy with the nation and which was therefore ready to use its formidable strength to compel unqualified submission to the sovereign's commands