induce you to depart from that course which you have promised to pursue.

"_Nothing shall deter me from the exercise of this right of a free man, to
fulfill this duty of a citizen_; neither the momentary errors of opinion;
for what are opinions when they depart from principles: nor my respect for
the _representatives_ of the people; for I respect still more the _people_,
whose sovereign will it is to have a constitution: nor the benevolence and
kindness which you have constantly evinced for myself; for I would
_preserve_ that as I _obtained_ it, by an inflexible love of liberty.

"Your situation is difficult--France is menaced from without, and agitated
within. Whilst foreign powers announce the intolerable (inadmissible)
project of attacking our national sovereignty, and avow it as a principle!
at the same time the enemies of France, its interior enemies, intoxicated
with fanaticism and pride, entertain chimerical hopes, and annoy us with
their insolent malevolence. You ought, gentlemen, to repress them; and you
will have the power so to do, _only when_ you shall become _constitutional_
and _just_. You wish it, _no doubt_; but cast your eyes upon all that
passes within your own body and around you. Can you dissemble even to
yourselves, that a _faction_, (and to avoid all vague denunciations) the
_jacobin faction_, have caused all these disorders? It _is that which I
boldly accuse_--organized like a separate empire in the metropolis, and in
its affiliated societies, blindly directed by some ambitious leaders, this
sect forms a _corporation entirely distinct_ in the midst of the French
people, whose powers it usurps, by tyrannizing over its representatives and
constituted authorities.

"It is in that body, in its public meaning, the _love_ of the laws is
denounced as aristocracy, and their _breach_ as patriotism. _There_ the
assassins of Dessilles receive their triumphs, the crimes of Jourdan find