He did it with a caution which bespoke but too well the weakness of his position, notwithstanding the boldness of his language.
"The labours of your committee of the constitution are assailed," he said.

"There exist against our work but two kinds of opposition.

Those who, up to the present time, have constantly shown themselves inimical to the Revolution--the enemies of equality, who hate our constitution because it is the condemnation of their aristocracy.

Yet there is another class hostile also, and I will divide it into two distinct species.

One of these is the men who, in the opinion of their own conscience, give the preference to another government which they disguise more or less in their language, and seek to deprive our monarchical government of all the strength which can retard the advent of a republic.