ational Guard non-acting
citizens; of the marriage of priests; of the abolition of the death
penalty; of granting political rights to colored men; of interdicting
the father from favoring any one of his children; of declaring the
"Constituants" ineligible to the Legislative Assembly, etc. On royalty:
"The King is not the representative but the clerk of the nation." On the
danger of allowing political rights to colored men: "Let the colonies
perish if they cost you your honor, your glory, your liberty!"]

[Footnote 31107: Hamel, I., 76.77, (March, 1789). "My heart is an honest
one and I stand firm; I have never bowed beneath the yoke of baseness
and corruption." He enumerates the virtues that a representative of the
Third Estate should possess (26, 83). He already shows his blubbering
capacity and his disposition to regard himself as a victim: "They
undertake making martyrs of the people's defenders. Had they the power
to deprive me of the advantages they envy, could they snatch from me my
soul and the consciousness of the benefits I desire to confer on them."]

[Footnote 31108: Buchez et Roux, XXXIII. "Who am I that am thus accused?
The slave of freedom, a living martyr to the Republic, at once the
victim and the enemy of crime!" See this speech in full.]

[Footnote 31109: Especially in his address to the French people, (Aug.,
1791), which, in a justificatory form, is his apotheosis.--Cf. Hamel,
II., 212; Speech in the Jacobin club, (April 27, 1792).]

[Footnote 31110: Hamel, I., 517, 532, 559; II., 5.]

[Footnote 31111: Lareveillere-Lepeaux," Memoires."--Barbaroux,
"Memoires," 358. (Both, after a visit to him.)]

[Footnote 31112: Robespierre's devotees constantly attend at the Jacobin
club and in the convention to hear him speak and applaud him, and are
called, from their condition and dress, "the fat petticoats."]

[Footnote 31113: Buchez et Roux, XX., 197. (Meeting of Nov. I,
1792.)--"Chronique de Paris," Nov. 9, 1792, article by Condorcet.
With the keen insight of the man of the world, he saw clearly into
Robespierre's character. "Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures; he
is animated, grave, melancholy, deliberately enthusiastic and systematic
in his ideas, and conduct. He thunders against the rich and the great;
he lives on nothing and has no physical necessities. His sole mission is
to talk, and this he does almost constantly... His characteristics are
not those of a religious reformer, but of the chief