Thus it appeared to us just.

But we only succeeded in brandishing the thunderbolts for a moment before the eyes of the rebels--the king has refused to sanction our decrees; the German princes make their territories a stronghold for the conspirators against us.
They favour the plots of the emigres, and furnish them with an asylum, arms, horses, and provisions.

Can patience endure this without becoming guilty of suicide?
Doubtless you have renounced the desire of conquest; but you have not promised to suffer insolent provocation.

You have shaken off the yoke of tyrants; surely, then, you will not bow the knee to foreign despots?
Beware! you are surrounded by snares; traitors seek to reduce you through disgust or fatigue to a state of languor that enervates your courage; and soon perhaps they will strive to lead it astray.

They seek to separate you from us; they pursue a system of calumny against the National Assembly to criminate the Revolution in your eyes.