Far be it from us to concur in such acts; we would not even consent to be witnesses of it, if we had not still the duty of watching over the preservation of the king.

Excepting this sole interest, we shall impose on ourselves the most absolute silence.

This silence will be the only expression of our constant opposition to all your acts." These words were the abdication of an entire party, for any party that protests abdicates.

On this day there was emigration in the Assembly.
This mistaken fidelity, which deplored instead of combating, obtained the applause of the nobility and clergy; it merited the utmost contempt of politicians.

Abandoning, in their struggle against the Jacobins, Barnave and the monarchical constitutionalists, it gave the victory to Robespierre, and by assuring the majority to his proposition for the non re-election of the members of the National Assembly to the Legislative Assembly, it sanctioned the convention.