66 Jeanette Needham. 
are stipulated, its lot decided,” he cried. “Thus it is in view 
of the nation that we should work. To surround us with troops, 
as has been done, is to fail in duty to the nation, to insult it in 
the person of its representatives. Can deliberation be carried 
on in the midst of arms? Are we in the midst of acamp? Yes, 
this much vaunted liberty, promising so much, is chimerical 
and of no consequence. In view of this, is it any wonder that 
the people are excited, that their spirits are inflamed and em- 
bittered, that the people revolt and that uprisings are frequent? 
Let the troops be removed and all will become calm and or- 
derly.’’* Then, apparently desirous of striking at the root of 
the matter at once, Barnave proposed that they send immedi- 
ately to the king a deputation to ask the withdrawal of the 
obnoxious troops. Although the motion seems to have been 
supported, evidently the danger in such radical action was felt. 
One member, said to have been a noble, proposed a temporary 
substitute, that of sending out to the people, the three men 
who stood at the head of the orders, that it might be known 
that the orders were united.“ Rabaud de St. Etienne is re- 
evidence seems to warrant this construction: The attempt of the people to 
enter, brought before the assembly the matter of the exclusion of the public. 
Barnave seized this opportunity to denounce the governmental scheme of 
guarding the hall, of which the avowed purpose was to exclude spectators. 
He followed up his speech by the proposal of a deputation to the king forth- 
with to ask that the troops be removed. But, instead of immediately acting 
on his suggestion, the heads of the three orders were sent out, and the matter 
of the deputation was taken up later. 
# Assemblée nationale, I, 225. The text of the speech ascribed to Barnave 
is given only in this account. The Moniteur (I, 99) gives the speech, but, 
barring two sentences which are omitted, it is a literal copy of the Assemblée. 
48 Duquesnoy, I, 129; Jallet, 104; Assemblée nationale, I, 225-226. The 
latter does not mention Barnave’s motion. Of the substitute proposal, 
Duquesnoy says: ‘“‘ Un membre de la noblesse a senti ce que cette démarche 
avait de dangereux et il a proposé que l’archevéque de Vienne, le comte de 
Clermont-Tonnerre, et M. Bailly se rendent a l’entrée de la salle.’’ Jallet 
has this: ‘‘ M. Barnave fit une motion . . . Plusieurs appuyerent cet avis. 
Un des membres, en l’adoptant, proposa, que M. le président et M. l’arche- 
véque de Vienne se présentassent au peuple pour l’apaiser.”” The Assemblée 
gives the following: ‘‘ Un membre de la noblesse dit qu’il fallait députer au 
peuple trois membres des trois ordres.”” Boullé, Docs. inédits, Revue de la 
rév., XIII, 76. 
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