terwards, in the next room, Mandar proposes to Petion and
Robespierre to attend the Assembly the next day and protest against the
massacre; if necessary, the Assembly may appoint a director for one day.
"Take care not to do that," replied Robespierre; "Brissot would be
the dictator."--Petion says nothing. "The ministers were in perfect
agreement to let the massacres continue."]

[Footnote 3160: Madame Roland, II. 37.--"Angers et le department de
Maine-et-Loire de 1787 a 1830," by Blordier Langlois. Appended to the
circular was a printed address bearing the title of Compte rendu au
peuple souverain, "countersigned by the Minister of Justice and with the
Minister's seal on the package," and addressed to the Jacobin Clubs of
the departments, that they, too, might preach massacre.]

[Footnote 3161: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 391, 398.--Warned by Alquier,
president of the criminal court of Versailles, of the danger to which
the Orleans prisoners were exposed, Danton replied: "What is that to
you? That affair does not concern you. Mind your own business, and do
not meddle with things outside of it!"--"But, Monsieur, the law says
that prisoners must be protected."--"What do you care? Some among them
are great criminals, and nobody knows yet how the people will regard
them and how far their indignation will carry them." Alquier wished to
pursue the matter, but Danton turned his back on him]

[Footnote 3162: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 217]

[Footnote 3163: Madame Roland, "Lettres autographes, etc.," Sept. 5,
1792. "We are here under the knives of Marat and Robespierre. These
fellows are striving to excite the people and turn them against the
National Assembly and the council. They have organized a Star Chamber
and they have a small army under pay, aided by what they found or stole
in the palace and elsewhere, or by supplies purchased by Danton, who is
underhandedly the chieftain of this horde."--Dusaulx, "Memoires," 441.
"On the following day (Sept. 3) I went to see one of the most estimated
personalities at this epoch. 'You know,' said I to him, 'what is going
on?'--'Very well; but keep quiet; it will soon be over. A little more
blood is still necessary.'--I saw others who explained themselves much
more definitely. "--Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 445.]

[Footnote 3164: Madame Roland, "Lettres autographes, etc.," Sept. 5,
1792. "We are here under the knives of Marat and Robespierre. These
fellows are striving to excite the people and turn