The Lameths were then patriots, but the next day they were no longer the same.

'It is impossible to submit to this,' said they,--'in concert with Duport--we must quit France.' What! shall those who have been the architects of the constitution undergo the mortification of witnessing the downfall of the edifice they have reared, by this approaching system of legislation?
We shall be condemned to hear from the galleries of the Assembly, some fool in the tribune attack our wisest enactments, which we are denied the power of defending.

Would to Heaven! that they would quit France.

Is it not enough to cause us to despise both the Assembly and the people of Paris, when we see that the clue of this is, that the supreme control was on the point of eluding the grasp of Lameth and La Fayette, and that Duport and Barnave would not be again elected." Petion, alarmed at these symptoms of discord, addressed the tribune of the Jacobins in conciliatory terms--"You are lost" said he, "should the members of the Assembly quit your party, and betake themselves _en masse_ to the Feuillants.

The empire of public opinion is deserting you; and these countless affiliated societies, imbued with your spirit, will sever the bonds of fraternity, and unite them to you.