race, or I will die in the attempt. Before I leave
you I will sign my own death-warrant, I will designate what I love most,
I will show you all my possessions, I will lay a dagger on the table
which shall pierce my heart if ever for an instant I prove false to the
cause of the people!" (session of Sept. 3).--Guillon de Montleon, I,
135.]

[Footnote 3322: Durand-Maillane, I.33. In the Electoral Assembly of the
Bouches-du-Rhone "there was a desire to kill an elector suspected of
aristocracy."]

[Footnote 3323: Mortimer-Ternaux, IV. 52. "Archives Nationales," CII. I
to 32.--Official report of the Electora1 Assembly of Bouches-du-Rhone.
Speech by Pierre Bayle, Sept. 3: "That man is not free who tries to
conceal his conscience in the shadow of a vote. The Romans openly
elected their tribunes... Who amongst us would reject so wise a measure?
The galleries of the National Assembly have had as much to do
with fostering the Revolution as the bayonets of patriots. "--In
Seine-et-Marne the Assembly at first decided for the secret vote; at the
request of the Paris commissaries, Ronsin and Lacroix, it rescinds its
decision and adopts voting aloud and by call.]

[Footnote 3324: Barbaroux, "Memoires," 379: "One day, on proceeding
to the elections, tumultuous shouts break out: 'That is an
anti-revolutionary from Arles, hang him!' An Arlesian had, indeed,
been arrested on the square, brought into the Assembly, and they were
lowering the lantern to run him up."]

[Footnote 3325: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 338.--De Sybel, "Histoire de
l'Europe pendant la Revolution Francaise" (Dosquet's translation), I.
525. (Correspondence of the army of the South, letter by Charles de
Hesse, commanding the regular troops at Lyons.)]

[Footnote 3326: Mortimer-Ternaux, V.101, 122 and following pages.]

[Footnote 3327: Guillon de Montleon, I. 172, 196 and following pages.]

[Footnote 3328: Sauzay, III. 220 and following pages.--Albert Babeau,
II. 15. At Troyes, two mayors elected refuse in turn. At the third
ballot in this town of from 32,000 to 35,000 souls, the mayor-elect
obtains 400 out of 555 votes.]

[Footnote 3329: Moniteur, XV. 184 to 233 (the roll-call of those who
voted for the death of Louis XVI).--Dumouriez, II. 73 (Dumouriez reaches
Paris Feb. 2, 1793, after visiting the coasts of Dunkirk and Antwerp):
"All through Picardy, Artois, and maritime Flanders Dumouriez found the
people in consternation at the tragic end of Louis XVI. He notice