historical chronic'w. ii i 



"and agitation, a voice proceeds from the centre and extremities of tie Rt.- - 

 public; — it prociaiins that the pation have risen to conquer, or bury theai- 

 selves under its ruins. 



** The nation has risen: Let us march ; Marseilles says so; and Mar- 

 seilles, doubtlefs, has a right to your confidence, and to suppoit that revo- 

 "Intion of which it set the example. This is the i;ist use wliich it « ilhes to . 

 make of the freedom of speaking, to manifest its grand resolutions and de- 

 cisive measures; instead of an armed people, a nation of warriors, who wait 

 only for the signal of battle, the vain preparation of words, it is the courage 

 of actions which we have need of. 



" Let us strike, and let the French, accused so Jong of being frivolous 

 prove to the world, that if they weje so under kings, they are become impa- 

 tient of insult, and terrible like the Gauls and the Franlis, from wJiom f.ify 

 liave the honour to be descended. 



" Republicans, men of all countries, who wifh for liberty and detest 

 licentiousnefi, who abhor royalty, and who willi to maintain ine Republic 

 one and indivisible, join the Marscillese, who exprefs that vvilh already ei- 

 prefsed by a great numberof departments. 



" They perceive that tl-.o present pohtical situation of Paris is equivalent 

 to a declaration of war agivinst the whole Republic. 



" They accuse and denounce to you, as the occasion of all the disorders 

 which affiict France, Philip of Orleans and his faction ; the fractic monster 

 who sells to him his bowlings, and whose name would disgrace this pro- 

 clamation ; the den of the Jacobins at Paris, the factious and intriguers who 

 are dispersed throughout it, and who make themselves busy in every cor- 

 ner of the Republic. Marseilles marks them out as the enemies of the pu- 

 Mic, who wiflied to conduct us to the brink of the precipice, to aduiter;ite 

 their monstrous and preconcerted anarchy with a kin:; of their own creation • 

 — and this king would be the most corrupted man or his age : a man loaded, 

 with dwbt; rich in disgrace, b:-.senefi, and debauciiery ; a man whom a 

 virtuous citizen would not admit among the number of his footmen, 

 and whom the latter would drive from among them. — A naan, in fliort, 

 confined within our walls, and against whom we invoke speedy and se- 

 vere punifliment. 



" We invite you to sign with us the just and indispensible confederation, 

 which we propose for the public safety, and to wafli away so many in- 

 juries. 



" Marseilles consequently declares that it is in a legal state of resistance 

 tb oppref'iion, and that it authorises itself by the law of public safety,' to make 

 war on the factious. > 



" That it cannot any longer acknowledge in the Convention, whose in. 

 tecrity has violated the national representation and that, at that epoch 

 only when the mandatories of the people restored to their functions, Ihrl! 

 vote in freedom, the nation will obey them with confidence and subni.. 

 sion. 



" That the throne of anarchy has beer> raised on the blorxly riiins 

 that which you have so justly ovcTtmned, and that tyranny is detejiali 

 in proportion tu the perversity and the e.xcefsive corruption of these who v... i 

 to exercise it. 



" That the factious have already been able to difsolve the Conventic 

 by weakening it ; by carrying into the bosom of it disorganization, disordi 

 and foolilh temerity ; and the French nation cannot consider the acts c:; 

 anating from a portion of the representatives of the people who still occu'- 

 • their places, but as so many proofs ol' the toasf;rair:t cicrciscd over some !■ 

 the perfidy and villainy of olhcri. 



