ower yet. No, nor shall we ever be.

"The National Guard is on the watch; victorious and sublime, their
soldierly breasts are not of flesh and blood, but of bronze, from
which the balls rebound as they stand, dauntless, before the enemy.

"Ah! so these lachrymose Jules Favres, these fat Picards, these
hungry Jules Ferrys, said amongst themselves, 'We will take Paris,
we will tear it up, and its soil shall be divided after the victory
between the wives of the _sergents de ville!_' They are beginning
to understand all the insanity of their plan. Why, it is Paris that
will take Versailles, that will take all those blear-eyed old men
who, because they cannot look steadily at Monsieur Thiers' face,
fancy that it is the sun.

"It is in vain that they gorge with blood and wine their deceived
soldiers; the moment is approaching when these men will no longer
consent to march against the city which is fighting for them.
Already, yesterday, the melee of a battle could be distinguished
from the fort of Vanves; the line had come to blows with the
_gendarmes_ of Valentin and Charette's Zouaves. Courage, Parisians!
A few more days and you will have triumphed over all the infamy that
dares to stop the march of the victorious Commune!

"But it is not enough to vanquish the enemies without, we must get
rid also of the enemies that are within.

"No more pity! no more vacillation! The justice of the people is
wearied of formalities, and cries out for vengeance. Death to spies!
Death to the _reactionaires_! Death to the priests! Why does the
Commune feed this collection of malefactors in your prisons, while
the money they cost us daily would be so useful to the women and
children of those who are fighting for the cause of Paris? We are
assured that one of the prisoners ate half a chicken for his dinner
yesterday; how many good patriots might have been saved from
suffering with the sum which was taken from the chests of the
Republic for this orgie! There is no longer time to hesitate; the
Versaillais are shooting and mutilating the prisoners; we must
revenge ourselves! We must show them such an example, that in
perceiving from afar the heads of their infamous accomplices, the
traitors of Versailles, stuck upon our ramparts, confounded by the
magnanimity of the Commune, they will lay down their ar