We are of opinion that the nation should do every thing by itself or by agents removable by her.

We think, that the more important an employ, the more temporary should be its tenure.

We think that royalty, and especially hereditary royalty, is incompatible with liberty; we anticipate the crowd of opponents such a declaration will create, but has not the declaration of rights produced as many?
In leaving his post the king virtually abdicated,--let us profit by the occasion and our right--let us swear that France is a republic." This address, read to the club of Jacobins on the 22d, at first excited universal indignation.

On the 23d, Danton mounted the tribune, demanded the positive forfeiture of the throne (_la decheance_), and the nomination of a council of regency.

"Your king," he said, "is an idiot, or a criminal.