Letter of the syndic-attorney of Bayeux, May 14, 1792, and letter of the Bayeux Directory, May 21.

"The dubs should be schools of patriotism; they have become the terror of it.

If this scandalous struggle against the law and legitimate authority does not soon cease liberty, a constitution, and safeguards for the French people will no longer exist"] [Footnote 2468: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3253.

Letter, of the Directory of the Bas-Rhin, April 26, 1792, and of Dietrich, Mayor of Strasbourg, May 8.

(The Strasbourg club had publicly invited the citizens to take up arms, "to vigorously pursue priests and administrators." )--Letter of the Besancon club to M.Dietrich, May 3.
"If the constitution depended on the patriotism or the perfidy of a few magistrates in one department, like that of the Bas-Rhin, for instance, we might pay you some attention, and all the freemen of the empire would then stoop to crush you.