(Applause.) Do more; demand that your flag be respected beyond the Rhine; demand that the _emigres_ be dispersed.

I might demand that they be given up to the country they insult, and to punishment.

But no.

If they have been greedy for our blood, let us not show ourselves greedy for theirs; their crime is having wished to destroy their country; let them be vagrants and wanderers on the face of the earth, and let their punishment be never to find a country.

(Applause.) If the emperor delays to answer your demands, let all delay be deemed a refusal, and every refusal on his part to explain, a declaration of war.