consider what
Rivers, what Mountain ranges are in it: they will retire behind this
Loire-stream, defend these Auvergne stone-labyrinths; save some
little sacred Territory of the Free; die at least in their last ditch.
Lafayette indites his emphatic Letter to the Legislative against
Jacobinism; (Moniteur, Seance du 18 Juin 1792.) which emphatic Letter
will not heal the unhealable.

Forward, ye Patriots whose audacity has no limits; it is you now that
must either do or die! The sections of Paris sit in deep counsel; send
out Deputation after Deputation to the Salle de Manege, to petition and
denounce. Great is their ire against tyrannous Veto, Austrian Committee,
and the combined Cimmerian Kings. What boots it? Legislative listens to
the 'tocsin in our hearts;' grants us honours of the sitting, sees us
defile with jingle and fanfaronade; but the Camp of Twenty Thousand,
the Priest-Decree, be-vetoed by Majesty, are become impossible for
Legislative. Fiery Isnard says, "We will have Equality, should we
descend for it to the tomb." Vergniaud utters, hypothetically, his stern
Ezekiel-visions of the fate of Anti-national Kings. But the question
is: Will hypothetic prophecies, will jingle and fanfaronade demolish
the Veto; or will the Veto, secure in its Tuileries Chateau, remain
undemolishable by these? Barbaroux, dashing away his tears, writes to
the Marseilles Municipality, that they must send him 'Six hundred men
who know how to die, qui savent mourir.' (Barbaroux, p. 40.) No wet-eyed
message this, but a fire-eyed one;--which will be obeyed!

Meanwhile the Twentieth of June is nigh, anniversary of that
world-famous Oath of the Tennis-Court: on which day, it is said,
certain citizens have in view to plant a Mai or Tree of Liberty, in
the Tuileries Terrace of the Feuillants; perhaps also to petition the
Legislative and Hereditary Representative about these Vetos;--with
such demonstration, jingle and evolution, as may seem profitable and
practicable. Sections have gone singly, and jingled and evolved: but if
they all went, or great part of them, and there, planting their Mai in
these alarming circumstances, sounded the tocsin in their hearts?

Among King's Friends there can be but one opinion as to such a step:
among Nation's Friends there may be two. On the one hand, might it not
by possibility scare away these unblessed Vetos? Private Patriots
and even Legislative Deputies may have each his own opinion, or own
no-opinion