While claiming to represent the entire body of Wallachian "émigrés", Heliade had by then grown disappointed with the political developments, and, in his private correspondence, commented that Romanians in general were "idle", "womanizing", as well as having "the petty and base envies of women", and argued that they required "supervision leadership". His fortune was declining, especially after pressures began for him to pay his many debts, and he often lacked the funds for basic necessities. At the time, he continuously clashed with other former revolutionaries, including Bălcescu, C. A. Rosetti, and the Golescus, who resented his ambiguous stance in respect to reforms, and especially his willingness to accept "Regulamentul Organic" as an instrument of power; Heliade issued the first in a series of pamphlets condemning young radicals, contributing to factionalism inside the "émigré" camp. His friendship with Tell also soured, after Heliade began speculating that the revolutionary general was committing adultery with Maria.