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" That theimprisonment of a great number of Legislators is a crime prg. 

 duced by the delirium of villainy ; a crime which posterity will scarcely 

 credit, if it come not to them accompanied with proofs of the striking ven- 

 gea . w ich we swear we wiU take, and which you will be able to obtain 

 along with us. 



" That the people of worth, whom Paris still contains, are invited to se- 

 cond, as much as may be in their power, tue united efforts that we are go- 

 ing to make for the common safety, and suffer to fall on the heads of the fac- 

 tious all the weight of that responsibility which they have incurred by their 

 crimes. ' 



" That the ruling faction at Paris has reduced the Republic to suffer in 

 that city, too long domineered over and abused, an armed force, which is 

 the last resource of the Sovereign People, by declaring that the destination 

 of confederated forces under the orders, and raised according to the wifh 

 of th'e departments, is to carry on a mortal war against those who wifli to 

 difEct it into our bosoms, torn by their criminal hands. 



" That every man capable of bearing arms is summoned in name of the 

 law, of general and individual interest, and of humanity, to come and 

 strenghten the mound which we are going to oppose to the destructive toi* 

 rent, unlefs every citizen wirties to be hurried into the abyfs which anarchists 

 and infamous depredators have prepared for us. 



" That by decreeing to raise a determined number of men ready to u- 

 nite in a body to effect the annihilation of the factious in their dens, the 

 Marseillese, who wifh to terminate the revolution they began, and to pro- 

 pagate the example they gave, invite to them all-citizens desirous ot meri- 

 ting well of mankind. They adopt this mode only on account of the urgen- 

 cy of the case, and submitting their measures' to the examination and ap- 

 probation of all the Members of the Sovereign, and without pretending to 

 set bounds to the zeal of the generous defenders of their country, who 

 wifh spontaneously to reinforce the phalanx of liberty, they hope it will 

 encrease in its pafsage, and will be joined by all citizens desirous of do- 

 ing good. 



" That in the colours of this army, the soldiers of their country will read 

 the completion of every good law ; the Republic one and indivisible ; res- 

 pect to persons and property — consoling words already engraven in their 

 hearts. 



" That we appeal to God and to our arms, on account of the crimes com- 

 mittedagainst the integrity of the national representation; the insults offered 

 to the indidividual liberty of our extraordinary deputies ; the liberticide plots 

 from which a miracle of Providence has saved us, and the accomplices of 

 which, charged with executing the horrid deed within our walls, Marseilles 

 is now proseciiting. A popular tribunal to which it owes its peaceful and 

 aweful existence is trying the conspirators, notwithstanding the obstacles 

 whic?i have been thrown in the way. Invested with the confidence of the 

 people, and defended by it, the most impeiious of laws, those of the present 

 circumstances, determine its activity, aiid the people of Marseilles, instead 

 of being refractory to the law, by employing the sword of it to strike the 

 guilty, discharge the principle of social duties, which is the speediest distri- 

 bution of justice. 



" Thus t le city of Marseilles joins to the motives drawn from the com- 

 mon safety of the Republic, which legalizes its determination, a representa- 

 tion of the particular grievances which afflict it, and the necefsity it is un- 

 der of silencing its calumniators, wl.o despairing of being able to kindle a- 

 mong us rb; torch of discoid, dare to present it to the Nationjil Convcatioa 

 as the light of truth. 



