aithful ally, had told the National
Assembly: "We have arrested the priests who make so much trouble. They
are in confinement in a certain domicile, and in a few days the soil of
liberty will be purged of their presence."]

[Footnote 3156: Meillan, "Memoires," 325 (Ed. Barriere et Berville).
Speech by Fabre d'Eglantine at the Jacobin Club, sent around among the
affiliated clubs, May 1, 1793.]

[Footnote 3157: Robinet, "Proces des Dantonistes," 39, 45 (words of
Danton in the committee on general defense).--Madame Roland, "Memoires,"
II. 30. On the 2nd of September Grandpre ordered to report to the
Minister of the Interior on the state of the prisons, waits for Danton
as he leaves the council and tells him his fears. "Danton, irritated by
the description, exclaims in his bellowing way, suiting his word to the
action. 'I don't give a damn about the prisoners! Let them take care of
themselves! And he proceeded on in an angry mood. This took place in the
second ante-room, in the presence of twenty persons."--Arnault, II. 101.
About the time of the September massacres "Danton, in the presence
of one of my friends, replied to someone that urged him to use his
authority in stopping the spilling of blood: 'Isn't it time for the
people to take their revenge?' "]

[Footnote 3158: Prudhomme, "Crimes de la Revolution," iv. 90. On the
2nd of September, at the alarm given by the tocsin and cannon, Prudhomme
calls on Danton at his house for information. Danton gives him the
agreed story and adds: "The people, who are now aroused and know what
to do, want to administer justice themselves on the nasty imprisoned
persons."--Camille Desmoulins enters: "Look here," says Danton,
"Prudhomme has come to ask what is going to be done?"--"Didn't you tell
him that the innocent would not be confounded with the guilty? All those
that are demanded by their Sections will be given up."--On the 4th,
Desmoulins calls at the office of the journal and says to the editors:
"Well, everything has gone off in the most perfect order. The people
even set free a good many aristocrats against whom there was no direct
proof. I trust that you will state all this exactly, because the Journal
des Revolutions is the compass of public opinion."]

[Footnote 3159: Prudhomme, "Crimes de la Revolution," IV. 123. According
to the statements of Theophile Mandar, vice-president of a section,
witness and actor in the scene; he authorizes Prudhomme to mention his
name.----Af