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power to the usurper, as they ovcc 

 an account to the people of the/at- 

 tacks made upon its sovert-ignty. 



In their iirmnessthc natioiKil c'cri'-' 

 %ention will not depart from AViS- 

 dorrt — they will attend to all remiin- 

 s trance, but they will not suffer ^hc 

 right to enlighten and admonisU, to 

 become a menus of oppression and 

 debasement — nor that any voice shall 

 be louder than than that of the na- 

 tional representation. 



Against the intriguers, and those 

 who yet may regret royalty, they 

 will preserve the most vigorous pos- 

 ture. They will maintam the mea- 

 sures of sccurty, which the pujj'.ic 

 safety demands; but they will never 

 consent to their arbitary extension, 

 and that suspicion should be rf source 

 of calamity. 



Frenchmen, consider as your ene- 

 mies all those who attack, obliquely 

 or directly, the liberty, the equality, 

 the unity, and the indivisibility of 

 the republic. 



Fly those who speak to you of 

 blood and scaffolds incessantly, those 

 exclusive patriots, enriched by the 

 revolution, who dread the operation 

 of justice, and who reckon upon 

 tinding their safety in coirtusion 

 and anarchy. 



Esteem and search out those la- 

 boriousand modest men, those good 

 and pure beings, wholly from pub- 

 lic employments, and who practise 

 incessantly, without ostentation, the 

 republican virtues. 



Never lose sight of this axiom, 

 that if a rapid and violent move- 

 ment is necessar} to make a revo- 

 lution, calmness andprudence mu>t 

 terminate it. Unite yourselves about 

 one common centre, the love and 

 respect for the laws, 



BchoUl your biave brethren in 



atms, they set you the example of 

 that sublime oi;cdicnce in their snb- 

 itiissioh and devotion. Their glory 

 is to attend to tiic voice of their 

 leaders ; they bless incessantl)' the 

 (lecrees of the convention ; they 

 sV.fter, andcast the misfortune upon 

 (fircumstances; if tliey perish, their 

 la.-,t exlamation is for the republic. 

 And yon, in the bosom of towns 

 and villages, . will you suffer your- 

 selves to be agitated by vain de- 

 bates? AN'ill you throw into your as- 

 scvublies obstacles wh'ch may retard 

 the triumphant march of the revo- 

 lution. 



O Frenchmen ! what grief will 

 it be for you, what satisfaction for 

 your enemies, to see. France victori- 

 ous without, and torn to pieces 

 within ! No, they shall not have 

 that cruel plca.sure. — What the con- 

 vention has done in the armies, they 

 \vill do in the bosom of tlie repub- 

 lic. 



The warlike virtues produce the 

 hero; the domestic virtues form the 

 citizen ; and they are these virtues, 

 sustained and fortified by an invin- 

 cible attachment to republican prin- 

 ciples, which perpetuate in a ge- 

 nerous nation that sacred fire, that 

 grand character, which has made 

 the French people the first in the 

 univer.e. 



Citizens, all the virtuous must 

 concitr in the .establishment of 3 

 repv.blic. You have exerted, by 

 turns, force, for the d( molition of 

 the Easiille and the throtie — the pa- 

 tience to support the evils insepara- 

 ble from a general revolution — the 

 courage to repulse your barbarous 

 invaders. The time is arrived to 

 conquer your enemies again by 

 firmness and wisdom. Calmmubt 

 succeed to so many storms. The 



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