e seen what would come of it.
And damn it, if he does not sanction the decree against the priests, and
do it right off; we will come back every day. In this way we shall tire
him out and make him afraid of us.--But the day wears on. The heat is
over-powering, the fatigue extreme, the King less deserted and better
protected. Five or six of the deputies, three of the municipal officers,
a few officers of the National Guard, have succeeded in making their way
to him. Petion himself, mounted on a sofa, harangues the people with
his accustomed flattery.[2554] At the same time Santerre, aware of the
opportunity being lost, assumes the attitude of a liberator, and shouts
in his rough voice: "I answer for the royal family. Let me see to it."
A line of National Guards forms in front of the King, when, slowly and
with difficulty, urged by the mayor, the crowd melts away, and, by eight
o'clock in the evening, it is gone.

*****

[Footnote 2501: Moniteur, X. 39 and following pages (sessions of Oct.
5 and 6, 1791). Speeches by Chabot, Couthon, Lequinio, and
Vergniaud.--Mercure de France, Oct. 15. Speech by Robespierre, May 17,
1790. "The king is not the nation's representative, but its clerk."--Cf.
Ernest Hamel, "Vie de Robespierre."]

[Footnote 2502: Moniteur, XIII. 97 (session of July 6, 1792)]

[Footnote 2503: Buchez et Roux, XIII. 61, Jan.28, 1792. The King in his
usually mild way calls the attention of the Assembly to the usurpation
it is committing. "The form adopted by you is open to important
observations. I shall not extend these to-day; the gravity of the
situation demands that I concern myself much more with maintaining
harmonious sentiments than with continually discussing my rights."]

[Footnote 2504: Sauzay, II. 99. Letter of the deputy Vernerey to the
Directory of Doubs: "The Directory of the department may always act with
the greatest severity against the seditious, and, apart from the article
relating to their pension, follow the track marked out in the decree. If
the executive desires to impede the operations of the Directory.. .
the latter has its recourse in the National Assembly, which in
all probability will afford it a shelter against ministerial
attacks."--Moniteur, XII. 202 (session of April 23). Report of Roland,
Minister of the Interior. Already at this date forty-two departments had
expelled or interned the unsworn ecclesiastics.]

[Footnote 2505: Mercure-de-France, Feb.25.]

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