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300 pity the Royalists, emigrants, and refractory priests, who incessantly conspire against the Republican Government; if they will take vigorous means to supply the markets abundantly, so as to lower the price of provisions; and if they will retain in office only pure, enlightened, energetic Republicans: men who would perish by their side rather than suffer the counter-Revolution to triumph.

Magnanimous people! your safety consists in resisting your oppressors with sublime perseverance; disdain not to use vigilance against them. The calamities they have incessantly heaped on your defenders have sufficiently awaked your suspicions to prevent their crafty civism from any longer imposing on you. Assume your majestic attitude; arm yourselves with your avenging thunder; crush those modern Titans who dare to invade your sovereignty; remember your triumphs; and, if you have still perils to avoid, you have also trophies to obtain

insidious, perverse Government, and whose luxury insults the public misery, has just lifted the mask, and openly attacking liberty, has dared audaciously to close, and impudently to calumniate, the patriotic unions. In these assemblies, it is, that the energetic men of the 14th July, of the 10th August, and of the 13th Vendémiaire, watched over the rights of the people; and, though hourly exposed to the bastiles and daggers of the Royalists, persevered in devoting themselves for the Revolution. They exposed the restoration of the emigrants, carried to such excess that the list of erasures exceeds that in which they had been marked out for the contempt of men, and for the vengeance of the laws! They resolutely claimed for your families the succours so justly guaranteed to them by the law; and for yourselves, too,