Read Brissot's journal, and you will there see that I am invited not always to be apostrophising the people in my discourses.
Yes, it is to be forbidden to pronounce the name of the people under pain of passing for a malcontent,--a tribune.

I am compared to the Gracchi: they are right so to compare me.

What may be perhaps common between us is their tragical end.

That is little: they make me responsible for a writing of Marat, who points me out as a tribune by preaching blood and slaughter.

Have I ever professed such principles?
Am I guilty of the extravagance of such an excited writer as Marat ?" At these words, Lasource, the friend of Brissot, wished to speak, and was refused.