' whose last sigh is given for his country,
and whose faithful voice still summons you to freedom, is to find his
grave in a fiery furnace." The last expression shows the difference in
their imaginations.]

[Footnote 31126: Hamel, II., 122. (Meeting of the Jacobin Club, Feb.10,
1792.) "To obtain death at the hands of tyrants is not enough--one must
deserve death. If it be true that the earliest defenders of liberty
became its martyrs they should not suffer death without bearing tyranny
along with them into the grave."--Cf., ibid., II., 215. (Meeting of
April 27, 1792.)]

[Footnote 31127: Hamel, II., 513. (Speech in the Convention, Prairial 7,
year II.)]

[Footnote 31128: Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 422, 445, 447, 457. (Speech in
the Convention, Thermidor 8, year II.)]

[Footnote 31129: Buchez et Roux, XX., 11, 18. (Meeting of the Jacobin
Club, Oct.29, 1792.) Speech on Lafayette, the Feuillants and Girondists.
XXXI., 360, 363. (Meeting of the Convention, May 7, 1794.) On Lafayette,
the Girondists, Dantonists and Hebertists.--XXXIII., 427. (Speech of
Thermidor 8, year II.)]

[Footnote 31130: Garat, "Memoires," 87, 88.]

[Footnote 31131: Buchez et Roux, XXI., 107. (Speech of Petion on the
charges made against him by Robespierre.) Petion justly objects that
"Brunswick would be the first to cut off Brissot's head, and Brissot is
not fool enough to doubt it."]

[Footnote 31132: Garat, 94. (After the King's death and a little before
the 10th of March, 1793.)]

[Footnote 31133: Ibid., 97. In 1789 Robespierre assured Garat that
Necker was plundering the Treasury, and that people had seen mules
loaded with the gold and silver he was sending off by millions to
Geneva.--Carnot, "Memoires," I. 512. "Robespierre," say Carnot and
Prieur, "paid very little attention to public business, but a good
deal to public officers; he made himself intolerable with his perpetual
mistrust of these, never seeing any but traitors and conspirators."]

[Footnote 31134: Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 417. (Speech of Thermidor 8,
year II.)]

[Footnote 31135: Ibid., XXXII., 361, (Speech May 7, '794,) and 359.
"Immorality is the basis of despotism, as virtue is the essence of the
Republic."]

[Footnote 31136: Ibid., 371.]

[Footnote 31137: Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 195. (Report of Couthon
and decree in conformity therewith, Prairial 22, year II.) "The
revolutionary tribunal is organised for the punishment of the people's
enemies.. .. The penalty for