"Count Schulemburg repeated to me that they had no desire whatever to meddle with our constitution.

But, said he with singular animation, we must guard against gangrene.

Prussia is, perhaps, the country which should fear it least; nevertheless, however remote a gangrened member may be, it is better to it off than risk one's life.
How can you expect to secure tranquility, when thousands of writers every day...

mayors, office-holders, insult kings, and publish that the Christian religion has always supported despotism, and that we shall be free only by destroying it, and that all princes must be exterminated because they are all tyrants ?"] [Footnote 2363: A popular jig of these revolutionary times, danced in the streets and on the public squares .-- TR.] [Footnote 2364: Buchez et Roux, XXV.

203 (session of April 3, 1793).
Speech by Brissot .-- Ibid., XX.127.