s! Why, shouts of 'Long
live the Republic' are heard on all sides, and, spontaneously (in the
session of July 2nd) we have all sworn to fall upon whoever should
propose a king.... Your representatives tell you that we are
anti-revolutionaries, we who have accepted the Constitution. They tell
you that we protect emigres when we have offered to surrender all those
that you might indicate. They tell you that our streets are filled
with refractory priests, when we have not even opened the doors of
Pierre-en-Cize (prison) to the thirty-two priests confined there by
the old municipality, without indictment, without any charge whatever
against them, solely because they were priests."

Thus, at Lyons, the pretended aristocrats were, then, not only
republicans but democrats and radicals, loyal to the established regime,
and submissive to the worst of the revolutionary laws, while the
same state of things prevailed at Bordeaux, at Marseilles and even at
Toulon.[1171] And furthermore, they accepted the outrages of May 31 and
June 2;[1172] they stopped contesting the usurpations of Paris; they no
longer insisted on the return of the excluded deputies. On the 2nd
of August at Bordeaux, and the 30th of July at Lyons, the
Committee-Extraordinary of Public Safety resigned; there no longer
existed any rival assembly opposed to the Convention. After the 24th of
July,[1173] Lyons solemnly recognized the supreme and central authority,
reserving nothing but its municipal franchises.--And better still, in
striking testimony of political orthodoxy, the Council-General of the
department prescribed a civic festival for the 10th of August analogous
to that of Paris. The Lyonnese, already blockaded, indulged in no
hostile manifestation; on the 7th of August they marched out of their
advanced positions to fraternize with the first body of troops sent
against them.[1174] They conceded everything, save on one point, which
they could not yield without destruction, namely, the assurance that
they should not be given up defenseless to the arbitrary judgment of
their local tyrants, to the spoliation, proscriptions and revenge of the
Jacobin rabble. In sum, at Marseilles and Bordeaux, especially at Lyons
and Toulon, the sections had revolted only on that account; acting
promptly and spontaneously, the people had thrust aside the knife which
a few ruffians aimed at their throats; they had not been, and were
not now, willing to be "Septemberised," that was