Overflooded with his venom, he vomits it forth on all.

At home, abroad, finances, war,--on all! Shriller and sharper rose his voice,-- "A conspiracy exists against the public liberty.

It owes its strength to a criminal coalition in the very bosom of the Convention; it has accomplices in the bosom of the Committee of Public Safety...What is the remedy to this evil?
To punish the traitors; to purify this committee; to crush all factions by the weight of the National Authority; to raise upon their ruins the power of Liberty and Justice.

Such are the principles of that Reform.

Must I be ambitious to profess them ?--then the principles are proscribed, and Tyranny reigns amongst us! For what can you object to a man who is in the right, and has at least this knowledge,--he knows how to die for his native land! I am made to combat crime, and not to govern it.