History of the Girondists Or Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Re
History of the Girondists Or Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Re
Lamartine Alphonse De
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' " It is to foreign powers especially that you should address your demands and your menaces. It is time to show to Europe what you are, and to demand of it an account of the outrages you have received from it. I say it is necessary to compel those powers to reply to us, one of two things ; IN FAVOUR OF WAR. 239 either they will render homage to our constitution^ they will declare against it. In the first place, you have not to balance, it is necessary that you should assail the powers that dar...e to threaten you. In the last century when Portugal and Spain lent an asylum to James II. , England attacked both. Have no fears — the image of liberty, like the head of Medusa, will affright the armies of our enemies ; they fear to be abandoned by their soldiers, and that is why they prefer the line of expectation, and an armed mediation. The English constitution and an aristocratic liberty will be the basis of the reforms they will propose to you, but you will be unworthy of all liberty if you accept yours at the hands of your enemies.
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