left arms for a
buckler, and I will overrun France and build the Revolution."

According to him it is necessary to do away with 260,000 men "on humane
grounds," for, unless this is done, there is no safety for the rest.

"The National Assembly may still save France; let it decree that all
aristocrats shall wear a blue ribbon, and the moment that three of them
are seen in company, let them be hung."

Another way would be

"to lay in wait in dark streets and at corners for the royalists and
Feuillants, and cut their throats. Should ten patriots happen to be
killed among a hundred men, what does it matter? It is only ninety for
ten, which prevents mistakes. Fall upon those who own carriages, employ
valets, wear silk coats, or go to the theatres. You may be sure that
they are aristocrats."

The Jacobin proletariat has obviously found the leadership that suits
them. They will get on with each other without difficulty. In order
that this spontaneous massacre may become an administrative measure, the
Neros of the gutter have but to await the word of command from the Neros
of the Hotel-de-ville.

*****

[Footnote 2601: An expression of Lafayette's in his address to the
Assembly.]

[Footnote 2602:Lafayette, "Memoires," I. 452.--Malouet (II. 213) states
that there were seventy.]

[Footnote 2603:Cf., for example, "Archives Nationales," A.F. II.116.
Petition of 228 notables of Montargis.]

[Footnote 2604: Petition of the 20,000, so-called, presented by
Messrs. Guillaume and Dupont de Nemours.--Cf.. Mortimer-Ternaux, I.
278.--According to Buchez et Roux, the petition containing only 7,411
names.]

[Footnote 2605: Mortimer-Ternaux, I.277.]

[Footnote 2606: Moniteur, XIII. 89. The act (July 7) is drawn up with
admirable precision and force. On comparing it with the vague, turgid
exaggerations of their adversaries, it seems to measure the intellectual
distance between the two parties.]

[Footnote 2607: 339 against 224--Roederer ("Chronique des cinquante
jours," p.79). "A strong current of opinion by a majority of the
inhabitants of Paris sets in favor of the King."--C. Desmoulins; "That
class of petty traders and shopkeepers, who are more afraid of the
revolutionaries than of so many Uhlans... "]

[Footnote 2608: Mortimer-Ternaux, I. 236. Letter of Roederer to the
president of the National Assembly, June 25. "Mr. President, I have the
honor to inform the Assembly that an armed mob is marching towards the
Chateau