No, no, nought can ever efface the indelible stain of the blood of your brethren, that has spurted over your scarfs and your uniforms.

It has sunk even to your heart--it is a slow poison that will consume ye all." Whilst the revolutionary press thus infused the spirit of resentment into the people, the clubs, reassured by the indolence of the Assembly, and by the scrupulous legality of La Fayette, suffered but slightly the effects of this body blow of the victory of the Champ-de-Mars.

A schism took place in the assembly of the Jacobins between the intolerant members and its first founders, Barnave, Duport, and the two Lameths.

This schism took its rise in the great question of the non-re-eligibility of the members of the National Assembly for the Legislative Assembly which was so soon to succeed.

The pure Jacobins, together with Robespierre, wished that the National Assembly should abdicate, _en masse_, and voluntarily sentence themselves to a political ostracism, in order to make room for men of newer ideas and more imbued with the spirit of the time.