panegyrists. There, the recital of the massacre which has stained the city
of Metz, has also been received with _infernal_ acclamations! Have they
become sacred because the emperor Leopold has pronounced their name? And
because it is our highest duty to combat the _foreigners_, who mingle in
our domestic quarrels, are we at liberty to refrain from _delivering_ our
country from domestic tyranny?

"Of what importance is it, as to the fulfillment of this duty, that
strangers have their projects; and their connivance and concert with our
internal foes? It is I, who denounce to you this sect [the jacobins]; I,
who, without speaking of my past life, _can reply_ to those who suspect my
motives--"Approach, in this moment of awful crisis, when the character of
each man must be known, and see which of us, more inflexible in his
principles, more obstinate in his resistance, will more courageously
overcome, those obstacles, and those dangers, which traitors to their
country conceal, and which true citizens know how to appreciate, and to
brave for her."

"And how could I delay longer to fulfill this duty, whilst every successive
day weakens still more the constituted authorities, substitutes the spirit
of party for the will of the people; whilst the audacity of the agitators,
[the disorganizers] imposes silence on peaceable citizens, throws into
retirement useful men, and whilst _devotion_ to the _sect_ or _party_
stands in the place of _public_ and _private_ virtues, which, in a free
country, ought to be the austere [severe, or strict] and only means of
attaining to public office.

"It is, after having opposed to all the obstacles, and to all the snares,
which were laid for me, the courageous and persevering patriotism of an
army, sacrificed perhaps to conspiracies against its commander, (Lafayette