5/25 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. 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. |