What strange language! It is attempted to make you believe that you have here men of faction and anarchy--enemies of order, as if order could only exist by satisfying the ambition of certain individuals! It is proposed to you to grant to all individuals of the royal family the title of prince, and to deprive them of the rights of a citizen?
What incoherence, and what ingratitude! You declare the title of French citizen to be the most admirable of titles, and you propose to exchange it for the title of prince, which you have suppressed, as contrary to equality! Have not the relatives of the king, who still remain in Paris, constantly displayed the purest patriotism?
What services have they not rendered to the public cause by their example and their sacrifices! Have they not themselves abjured all their titles for one only--that of citizen?
and yet you propose to despoil them of it! When you suppressed the title of prince, what happened?
The fugitive princes formed a league against the country; the others ranged themselves with you.

If to-day the title of prince is re-established, we concede to the enemies of our country all they covet; we deprive the patriotic relatives of the king of all they esteem! I see the triumph and the recompence on the side of the conspiring princes; I see the punishment of all sacrifices on the side of the popular princes.

It is said to be dangerous to admit the members of the royal family into the legislative body.

This hypothesis would then be established, that every individual of the royal family must be for the future a corrupt courtier or factious partisan! However, is it not possible to suppose that there are patriots amongst them?
Is it those you would thus brand?
You condemn the relatives of a king to hate the constitution and conspire against a form of government which does not leave them the choice between the character of courtiers or that of conspirators.

See, on the other hand, what may accrue if the love of country inspire them! Cast your eyes on one of the branches of that race, whom it is proposed to you to exile.