The Assembly separated without deliberating, and gave a few hours up to enthusiasm rather than to reflection.
VII.
At the sitting in the evening, Pastoret, one of the principal Feuillants, was the first to support the war.

"We are reproached with having voted the effusion of human blood in a moment of enthusiasm; but is it to-day only that we are provoked?
During four hundred years the house of Austria has violated every treaty with France.

Such are our motives; let us no longer hesitate.

Victory will adhere faithfully to the cause of liberty." Becquet, a constitutional royalist, a profound and courageous orator, alone ventured to speak against the declaration of war.

"In a free country," said he, "war is alone made to defend the constitution or the nation.