To one of the unsuccessful champions of political liberty sympathy has seldom been denied. […] Monarchy brought concord. 6 During the Civil Wars every party and every leader professed to be defending the cause of liberty and of peace. […] The Senate broke up in fear and confusion, the assassins made their way to the Capitol to render thanks to the gods of the Roman State, They had no further plans the tyrant was slain, therefore liberty was restored. […] Though Rome and the army were degenerate and Caesarian, respect for liberty, for tradition, and for the constitution might appear to survive in Italy. […] The Dictator was dead, regretted by many, but not to be avenged; an assertion of liberty had been answered by the Caesarian leaders with concord in word and action.