Forestall the designs of your enemies.

Publish an address to the affiliated societies, and reassure them of your constitutional intentions; tell them that you have been belied to them, and that you are no promoters of faction.

Tell them that far from wishing to disturb public tranquillity, your sole design is to avert those troubles entailed on you by the king's departure.

Tell them that we submit to the rapid and imposing influence of opinion, and that respect for the Assembly, fidelity to the constitution, devotion to the cause of your country and of liberty, form your principles." This address, dictated by the hypocrisy of fear, was adopted and sent to all the societies in the kingdom.

This measure was followed by a remodelling of the Jacobins; the primitive nucleus alone was suffered to remain, which re-organised the rest by the ballot over which Petion presided.
On their side the Feuillants wrote to the patriotic societies of the provinces, and for a brief space there was an interregnum of the factions; but the societies of the provinces speedily declared _en masse_, and with an almost unanimous and revolutionary enthusiasm, in favour of the Jacobins.
"Free and sincere union with our brothers in Paris:" such was the rallying cry of the clubs.