The petition is drawn up apparently by people who are beside themselves.

"If we did not rely on you, I would not answer for the excesses to which our despair would carry us! We would bring on ourselves all the horrors of civil war, provided we could, on dying, drag along with us some of our cowardly assassins!"-- --The representatives, it must be noted, talk in the same vein.

La Source exclaims: "The members here, like yourselves, call for vengeance!"-- Thuriot: "The crime is atrocious!"] [Footnote 2647: Taine is describing a basic trait of human nature, something we see again and again whether our ancestors attacked small, harmless neighboring nations, witches, renegades, Jews, or religious people of another faith.( SR).] [Footnote 2648: Buchez et Roux, XIX 93, session of Sept.

23, 1792.
Speech by Panis: "Many worthy citizens would like to have judicial proof; but political proofs satisfy us"-- Towards the end of July the Minister of the Interior had invited Petion to send two municipal officers to examine the Tuileries; but this the council refused to do, so as to keep up the excitement.] [Footnote 2649: Mallet du Pan, "Memoires," 303.

Letter of Malouet, June 29 .-- Bertrand de Molleville, "Memoires," II.