Merlin demanded if the peace sworn yesterday ought to bind only one of two parties, and to authorise the other to spread calumnies against Robespierre?
The Assembly tumultuously insisted on the orators being silent.

Legendre declared that the chamber was partial.
Robespierre quitted the tribune, approached the president, and addressed him with menacing gestures, and in language impossible to be heard in the noise of the chamber, and the taunts and sneers profusely scattered by the opposing factions.
"Why do we see this ferocity among the _intrigants_ against Robespierre ?" exclaimed one of the partisans when tranquillity was re-established.

"Because he is the only man capable of making head against their party, if they should succeed in forming it.

Yes, in revolutions we require those men, who, full of self-denial, deliver themselves as voluntary victims to factions.

The people should support them.