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The History of a Crime

CHAPTER XVI
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No set phrases.

Ten lines--an appeal to arms! We are the Law, and there are occasions when the Law should utter a war-cry.

The Law, outlawing the traitor, is a great and terrible thing.

Let us do it." They interrupted me with "Yes, that is right, a proclamation!" "Dictate! dictate!" "Dictate," said Baudin to me, "I will write." I dictated:- "TO THE PEOPLE.
"Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is a traitor.
"He has violated the Constitution.
"He is forsworn.
"He is an outlaw--" They cried out to me on every side,-- "That is right! Outlaw him." "Go on." I resumed the dictation.

Baudin wrote,-- "The Republican Representatives refer the People and the Army to Article 68--" They interrupted me: "Quote it in full." "No," said I, "it would be too long.


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