text:  How is it to be decided which is the rightful governor and which the usurper? who shall say whether those in power are there by right as well as might; or whether they are merely successful rebels banditti on a large scale who have seized upon place and power with as much justice and by the same violent means as highwaymen of inferior grade possess themselves of the purses of travellers? But even if we concede this point and admit that whoever holds the reins though but from yesterday and with a bloodstained hand is justified in slaughtering by wholesale all who show a disposition to drag him down again it will still be impossible to palliate the treacherous and tyrannical proceedings of Narvaez