It is at a moment when the holiest or the freest of constitutions has been proclaimed that the most infamous attempts against liberty, against property,--nay, what do I say ?--against humanity and conscience, are multiplied and perpetuated! Does not this contrast alarm you?
I will tell you wherefore.

Yourselves deceived as to the mechanism of political society, you have sought its regeneration without reflecting on its dissolution; you have considered as an obstacle to your plans the discontent of some, and as a means the enthusiasm of others.

Only desirous to overcome obstacles you have overturned principles, and taught the people to brave every thing.

You have taken the passions of the people for auxiliaries.

It is to raise an edifice by sapping the foundations.