The victory of the Champ-de-Mars was already contested in the Assembly, and the clubs re-opened that evening.

Robespierre, Brissot, Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and Marat, who had for some days past disappeared, now took fresh courage, for the hesitation of their enemies reassured them,--by constantly attacking a power that was contented to remain on the defensive, they could not fail to weary it out, and thus, from accused they transformed themselves into accusers.

Their papers abandoned for a short time, became more malignant from their temporary panic, and heaped ridicule and odium on Bailly and La Fayette.

They aroused the people to vengeance by displaying unceasingly before their eyes the blood of the Champ-de-Mars.

The red flag became the emblem of the government and the winding-sheet of liberty.