Let us suppress all salary from the national treasury to the nonjuring priests.
Nothing is due to them but in their clerical capacity.

What service do they render?
They invoke ruin on our laws; and they say they follow their consciences! Must we pay consciences which push them to the extremity of crime against their country?
The nation supports them: is not that enough?
They appeal to the article of the constitution, which says, 'The salaries of the ministers of Catholic worship form a portion of the national debt.' Are they ministers of the Catholic worship?
Does the state recognise any other Catholicity than its own?
If they would attempt any other it is open to them and their sectarians! The nation allows all sorts of worship, but only pays one.

And what a saving for the nation to be freed from thirty millions (of francs), which she pays annually to her most implacable enemies! (Bravo.) Why have we these phalanx of priests, who have abjured their ministry?
these legions of canons and monks; these cohorts of abbes, friars, and beneficed clergy of all sorts, who were not remarkable otherwise, except for their pretensions, inutility, intrigues and licentious life; and are only so to-day by their vindictive interference, their schemes, their unwearied hatred of the Revolution?
Why should we pay this army of dependents from the funds of the nation?
What do they do?
They preach emigration, they send coin from the realm, they foment conspiracies against us from within and without.

Go, say they to the nobility, and combine your attacks with the foreigner; let blood flow in streams, provided that we recover our privileges! This is their church! If hell had one on earth it is thus that it would speak.

Who shall say we ought to endow it ?" Tourne, the constitutional bishop of Bourges, replied to the Abbe Fauchet as Fenelon would have answered Bossuet.