(Now), I beg the Assembly to repeal the decree on emigration; otherwise it may be said that people are purposely kept here to be assassinated.

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In case it should refuse to do us this justice, I should be quite as willing to have it decree an act of proscription against us, for we should not then be lulled to sleep by the protection of laws which are doubtless very wise, but which are not respected anywhere." " It is not our privileges," say several others, "it is not our nobility that we regret; but how is the persecution to which we are abandoned to be supported?
There is no safety for us, for our property, or for our families.

Wretches who are our debtors, the small farmers who rob us of our incomes, daily threaten us with the torch and the lamp post.