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pled excefs; the purchafers of na- 
tional domains menaced, and even 
ftripped of their property; public 
credit almoft annihilated; com- 
merce paralyzed; induftry precari- 
ous; private tranfactions without 
either rule or pledge; the national 
treafury left without refources in 
the midft of numberlefs and ur- 
gent wants; difcontents of every 
defcription at their greateft height; 
difcords rekindled; the defenders 
of the country rewarded for their 
triumphs, facrifices, and wounds, by 
infults and profcriptions; and, fi- 
nally, external peace refarded by a 
declaration of new innovations. 
Such, citizens, is the picture which 
the Republic prefents; and it is 
thus that the hope of the eftablifh- 
ment of the conftitutional a@t, which 
had been increafing for fome months, 
has been daily diffipated. No, it is 
not to return to fo much wretched- 
nefs and difgrace that you have en- 
countered the perils of a revolution, 
Your children, your brothers, your 
friends, fhall not in vain have dif- 
- perfed the armies of kings, and ac- 
quired the admiration of nations. 
The faétious will not be allowed to 
overthrow the work of the national 
will. The conftitution of the third 
year fhall not be wrefted from us. 
Some of the reprefentatives of 
Blankenbourg, ufurping the tiile of 
the chofen reprefentatives of the 
people, emigrants, chiefs of Chou- 
ans, heads of confpirators, men who 
have conftantly betrayed their duty 
in the moft eminent funétions, fhall 
deprive you of the fruits of your la- 
bours. The legiflative body wiil 
doubtlefs make a wife diftinction. 
Tt is ‘upon its patriotifm and its ta- 
Jents that ‘you ought to rely for the 
accomplifiment of this great act of 
juftice and neceflity.—- Confide in 
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the legiflative body, and give the 
law its courfe; without which your, 
generous impulfe, affuming an irre- 
gular and improper direétion, and 
proceeding in the midft of tumult 
towards an objeét but faintly re- 
cognized, you will lofe the whole 
fruit of your exertion, if you do not 
experience the fatal effect of fuch 
conduct as you already have fo of- 
ten experienced them. Never for- 
get, citizens, that we are placed be- 
tween two dangers equally great, 
that of leaving behind the germs of 
an eyil which infallibly would pro- 
duce new fhocks, and that of pe- 
rifhing by the too violent effect of 
the remedy. 
LaAREVEILLIERE LEPauxy 
Prefident. 
Lacarpe, Secretary. 
The Executive Diredtory to the Citizeng 
of Paris, Sept. 4th, VI97. 
Citizens, . 
ROYALTY has juft threatened 
the conftitution by a new attack, 
After having for a whole year fhak- 
en, by their dark manceuvres, all the 
foundations of the Republic, they 
thought that they were fufficiently 
powerful to confummate its deftruc- 
tion. They thought themfelves 
fufficiently protected to venture to 
aim its firft attacks againft the fu- 
preme depofitaries of the executive 
authority. Arms were daily diftri- 
buted to the confpirators; and alk 
Paris knows, that one of the diftri- 
buters was arrefted with a great 
number of bonds, upon which he 
had already delivered a great num- 
ber of firelocks. Cards ftamped 
Legiflative Body, and marked with an 
R, were Circulated, in order to ferve 
as rallying figns to the confpirators 
charged 
