demarcation between themselves and all true men.

 

Question history, and learn how all the defenders of liberty, in all times, have

been overwhelmed by calumny. But their traducers died also. The good and the bad

disappear alike from the earth; but in very different conditions. O Frenchmen! O

my countrymen! Let not your enemies, with their desolating doctrines, degrade

your souls, and enervate your virtues! No, Chaumette, no! Death is not "an

eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by

sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from

oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of

death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of

immortality!" I leave to the oppressors of the People a terrible testament,

which I proclaim with the independence befitting one whose career is so nearly

ended; it is the awful truth--"Thou shalt die!"

 

FOOTNOTES:

 

[Footnote 6: _School and College Speaker_, Mitchell.]

 

[Footnote 7: _School and College Speaker_, Mitchell.]

 

CHAPTER XV

 

THE TRUTH ABOUT GESTURE