Yet it is the only basis, the only support, the only rampart of this prodigious power of M.
Bonaparte.

This vote is the excuse of cowards, this vote is the buckler of dishonoured consciences.

Generals, magistrates, bishops, all crimes, all prevarications, all degrees of complicity, seek refuge for their ignominy behind this vote.

France has spoken, say they: _vox populi, vox Dei_, universal suffrage has voted; everything is covered by a ballot .-- _That_ a vote! _that_ a ballot?
One spits on it, and passes by.
Third.

_The figures must be accurate._ I admire that figure: 7,500,000! It must have had a fine effect, through the fog of the 1st of January, in letters of gold, three feet high, on the portal of Notre-Dame.
I admire that figure.