"Yes, doubtless," said this orator, destined to be torn from the tribune, a year later, by an armed mob,--"Doubtless, we should have done better never to have received armed men, for if to-day patriotism brings good citizens hither, aristocracy may to-morrow bring its janissaries.

But the error we have committed authorises that of the people.

The Assembly, formed up to the present time, appears sanctioned by the silence of the law.

It is true that the magistrates demand force to put them down: but what should you do in such circumstances?
I think that it would be an excess of severity to be inflexible to a fault, the origin of which is in your decrees: it would be an insult to the citizens to imagine they had any evil designs.

It is said that this Assembly wishes to present an address at the chateau: I do not believe that the citizens who compose it will demand to be presented with arms in their hands to the king: I think that they will obey the laws, and that they will go unarmed, and like simple petitioners.