By shewing that a Commonwealth was a Government of Laws, and not of the Sword, he could not but detect the violent administration of the Protector by his Bashaws, Intendants, or Majors General … while the Cavaliers on the other side tax'd him with Ingratitude to the memory of the late King … To these he answer'd, that … the Monarchy being now quite dissolv'd, and the Nation in a state of Anarchy … he was … oblig'd as a good Citizen to … [shew] his Countreymen … such a Model of Government as he thought most conducing to their Tranquillity, Wealth, and Power: That the Cavaliers ought of all People to be best pleas'd with him, since if his Model succeeded, they were sure to injoy equal Privileges with others, and to be deliver'd from their present Oppression; for in a well constituted Commonwealth there can be no distinction of Partys, the passage to Preferment is open to Merit in all persons.