STATE 
good citizens that we have to oppose 
to the union of the powers in league 
against us. Your enemies are ex- 
perienced in war, and inured to 
combats : you have, in advantage 
over them, the great interests of 
your own cause to defend ;—you 
have the passion for liberty, which 
exalts a man above himself, and 
transforms him into an hero. But 
the time is precious ; hasten to re- 
pair to your standards.—Fly into 
the country and to the frontiers, 
and remember that when the state 
is in danger, every citizen is a 
soldier ; and that the devoted ser- 
vice of the most generous becomes 
no longer a virtue, but aduty. All 
the cities in the empire will doubt- 
less be ambitious of seeing their 
names inscribed in the list of the 
well-deserving of their country. 
The whole kingdom will be over- 
spread with citizens subject to the 
laws, united together in the indis- 
soluble bands of concord, and by 
their attachment to a constitution 
to which they have all taken a so- 
lemn oath of fidelity. Administra- 
tors, magistrates, warriors, citizens, 
this is the moment to extinguish, 
in a brotherly sentiment of recon- 
ciliation and peace, the dissensions 
and hatreds that have hitherto di- 
vided and weakened you. ‘This is 
the moment to establish freedom 
upon an eternal foundation, in 
establishing the empire of the laws ; 
without which all is confusion, dis- 
order, and misery; all anarchical 
tyranny, and a thousand times 
more intolerable than even that of 
despotism. 
The law places you all in a state 
of perpetual inspection. Avail 
yourselves of the privilege, in order 
to give weight to authority and 
Springs to government: avail your- 
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selves of it for the re-establishment 
of good order, for the succour of 
France; which cannot make head 
unless all powers, all inclinations, 
all courage unite for its salvation. 
It is the King who calls to you,— 
a King proud of commanding a free 
people, who, in the name of the 
liberty that he loves, and of the 
equality which, like you, he is de- 
termined to maintain, conjures you 
to rally round the standard of the 
country, to assist him in giving 
force to the laws against the foes 
within and without; to swear witlr 
him to conquer or to die for the 
rights of the nation; and to bury 
them rather under the ruins of the 
empire than suffer its dignity to be 
insulted, that foreigners or rebels 
should give laws to France ; or, by 
yielding to a disgraceful capitula- 
tion, tarnish the honour of the 
French name. Under these consi- 
derations, the King, participating in 
the solicitude of the national as— 
sembly, who, by the act of the 
11th of the present month, have 
declared the country to be in dan- 
ger; thoroughly convinced that the 
moment in which the public liberty 
is menaced, is that in which it is 
most necessary to recall the citizens 
and magistrates to the exact obser- 
vance of the laws which guarantee 
it; and especially the decree of the 
8th inst. which ascertains the mea- 
sure to be taken when the country 
is in danger ; is anxious to recapitu- 
late the duties which these different 
laws universally impose upon the 
French nation. 
Art. I. His Majesty invites all 
citizens who are able to bear arms, 
and such especially who have had 
the honour to serve their country, 
of what rank soever they might 
have been, to enlist themselves im- 
O 4 mediately, 
