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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... "with insults, and receive at the hundredth door an ' obolus, the thousandth part of what will suffice to buy "a breakfast's bread for them." Such is a too true and sensible sketch of the future situation of our defenders--a sketch which you are to use all your endeavours to make them understand and appreciate. Tell them afterwards that it depends on themselves alone to avert this horrific perspective--that to save themselves, they have only to aid the people and the people's friends to re-conquer the rights of all. Those to whom you may speak with confidence, and whom you will deem at the outset calculated to propagate what we are about to say--those you may assure, that from the very day on which they shall have aided the people to recover its power, They Shall Be No Longer In WANT OF ANY THING; THEY SHALL BE PROVIDED WITH EVERYTHING NECESSARY FOR MEN. TELL THEM, FURTHERMORE, THAT ON THE DAY AFTER THE STRUGGLE ABUNDANCE AND THE MOST PROSPEROUS CONDITION OF LIFE SHALL BE GUARANTEED TO EVERY SOLDIER; It will be no longer in distant promises, and such as are easy to elude, that we will deal; it will be the simultaneous and immediate reality. In order the better to kindle in them the feelings most suitable to the people and to themselves; make them reflect on what they are, and what they are intended for by their rulers; on the motives for which they have been drawn around the walls of Paris; on the ignominious use which it is in contemplation to make of their bayonets and arms; and on the very opposite and glorious part they may play for their own happiness and that of their fellow-citizens: present these reflections to them somewhat in the way they have been put forth by the popular journalist already cited, and from whom we will...