I demand that these citizens be instantly permitted, to defile before us." Dumolard and Raymond, indignant at the perfidy or the cowardice of these words, energetically opposed this weakness or complicity of the Assembly.

"The best homage to pay the people of Paris," cried Raymond, "is to make them obey their own laws.

I demand that before these citizens are introduced they lay down their arms." "Why," returned Guadet, "do you talk of disobedience to the law, when you have so often disobeyed it yourself?
you would commit a revolting injustice; you would resemble that Roman emperor who, in order to find more guilty persons, caused the laws to be written in letters so obscure that no one could read them." The deputation of the insurgents entered at these last words, amidst the bursts of applause and the indignant murmurs of the Assembly.
XIV.
The orator of the deputation, Huguenin, read the petition concerted at Charenton.

He declared that the city had risen ready to employ every means of avenging the majesty of the people, whilst he deplored the necessity of staining their hands with the blood of the conspirators.
"But," said he, with apparent resignation, "the hour has come; blood must be shed.

The men of the 14th of July are not asleep, they only appeared to be; their awakening is terrible: speak, and we will act.