"Representatives," said he, "the applauses of the people are its civil list: the inviolability of the king is a thing most infinitely just, for he ought, by nature, to be always in opposition to the general will and our interest.

One does not voluntarily fall from so great a height.

Let us take example from God, whose _commandments are never impossible_; let us not require from the _ci-devant_ sovereign an _impossible love_ of the national sovereignty; is it not very natural that he should give his _veto_ to the best decrees?
But let the magistrates of the people--let the Directory of Paris--let the same men, who, four months since, in the Champ-de-Mars, fired upon the citizens who were signing a petition against one decree, inundate the empire with a petition, which is evidently but the first page of a vast register of counter-revolution, a subscription to civil war, sent by them for signature to all the fanatics, all the idiots, all the slaves, all the robbers of the eighty-three departments, at the head of which are the exemplary names of the members of the Directory of Paris--fathers of their country! There is in this such a complication of ingratitude and fraud, prevarication and perverseness, philosophical hypocrisy and perfidious moderation, that on the instant we rally round the decrees and around yourselves.

Continue faithful, mandatories, and if they obstinately persist in not permitting you to save the nation, well, then, we will save it ourselves! For at last the power of the royal _veto_ will have a term, and the taking of the Bastille is not prevented by a _veto_.
"For a long while we have been in possession of the civism of our Directory, when we saw it in an incendiary proclamation, not only again open the evangelical pulpits to the priests, but the seditious tribunes to conspirators in surplices! Their address is a manifesto tending to degrade the constitutional powers: it is a collective petition--it is an incentive to civil war, and the overthrow of the constitution.

Assuredly we are no admirers of the representative government, of which we think with J.J.