National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-04-06 00:00:00, page 4

Mr. BRI'SOfs Speech in the. National
/Iffembly of France, on siugufl 8, 1792
in fvfport of the accufalion of M- de la
Fayette.
(Continued from our last )
MR. La Faycte will fay that he had
concerted with Mai thai Luckner
But iiad he conccrtcd alio wi h the Au
itrian General? H d he concerted with
fortune ? Had he her in his hands, at his
ordeis ? No, gentlemen ; he might be at
tacked ; he •was attacked in his absence.
Fortune has favoured our arms ; it might
have been othei wife, at Irall if it were not
Jli/ulntedio the contrary. In fact, gentle
men, thejauut of Mr. La Fayette was very
well worth a victory to the Auflrians.
But, laying a fide hypothesis, I said the
Aullrians were not tuperior in numbers;
and why then this everlalling maftion ? It
is a glaring crime. Either the Auflriana
were fnperior, or they were not ; and to
leave his army was to betray the state. It
appears by the account of Mr. Bureau x-
Pufy, that Mr La F*yette was in the
firft mentioned cafe ; for he allows that
1 he camp of Tenieres was a dangerous po
rtion ; he agrees that there were bu' eigh
teen thousand men, when the catr.p was
capab'e of containing fifty thousand, and
when there was in front a body of twenty
live thousand men. He owns that he was
ignorant of all the movements and projefls
of the enemy. He mull then have been
in contlaut ?pprthenfion of an attack ; and
lie exposed his army by absenting himfelf
from it at luch a critical jnndVure.
Again, gen lemen, if this absence had
had for its obje£l the service of his army,
Mi. DumeLrd has told you, it was to press
the activity of the Minillers ; but, gentle
men, this anlwer is a mere pleasantry. Is
it ufua, o solicit the adtivity ot one's own
creature 3, elpecially when they have been
Itallied by ourfclvcs ? He has told you that
it was to demand military (lores ; but does
not Mr. La Fayette who is fnrrounded
•with a croud of aids de camp, know how
10 employ them ex ept in hawking peti
lions up and down in the different camps,
in intriguing at court an . in the city .'
Could he not spare one of them to hail en
the (lores? It is adding cowardice to cri
m;nali \, and impudence to both, to dif
j;uife the b fenefs ot his motives bv sub
terfuges like these. His journey to Paris
rould have no other object hue that of in-
Irigue ; it was 1.1 fadl peifc<iil> ridicu'on.;
fir t e came to make a complaint that had
idreaiiy been made, to demand a profecu
tion ihat was car lying on'; and, in fuppo
(ing that the law had permitted his peti
tion, tTe interest of the Hate, of his irmy,
commanded him either to fend it by the
prft or to charge some o e nith it.
I do not here speak of his quitting hit
sr.l y without leave. Mr. Dumolard has
not dared to affirm that he had one ; but
I luppofe the fatt true : I tuppofe it with
smother member who has deserted his pod
in the moment of danger : I suppose him
to have had an unlimited 1; ve : however,
lie ought not to have made use of it, ex
cept in the moll urgent circumilances.
To abuse it by ablenting hiinfelf, f om mo
tives foreign to the f rvice of his army,
and at a time wh«n that army was in the
moll critical polition, is treason to all in
tents and purposes.
You have been told that there is no law
that sorb ds a general to quit his poll. I
aufwer, that the law of the 30th of Sep
leinber, 1791, SiSt. 2d, slrt 10 th, fays:
" Every olhcer, non-commissioned officer
or soldier, who (hall quit his poll without
the permission of h s commandant, (hail
iuffer a disciplinary punishment by order
of the commandant of the corps to wiiich
1 e belongs ; except (onae aggrava ing cir
cumftances Shall determine tie Auditor to
transfer him to tiie cou t-martial ; and il
fit he transferr.d to this cou t, and found
guilty, he (hall fuffer oeath."—lc surely
will not be pretended that, if the law
(hikes at the funple officers and soldiers,
1 h genera! is to be spa ed ; at leafl if we
do not believe that the guilty ought tc
escape punifi ment, only when his crim> s
are ftich as may produce effects extraotdi
liarily fatal.
I e me to the second offence ; it has
been cl-arly prove ! by the orators w c
l avc gone betoie me. 'l hey have proved
l-y t' e conllitution, that the armed iorce
is ejjential'y obedient ,* that it has no right
J . ile ibcrate, and coi;(equently that Gen
eral La Fayette could not, without be
* The vjorJs of the Conflitution.
coning highly criminal, be die bearer of
a like rtqiic.ll
What dots Mr. Dumolard oppose to
this deinonftration ? He tells you, that
the rcqucll of the army was onlv indivi
dual, and that an individual petition is
not a deliberation.
Does he not blush to attempt the de
fence of one of the f r amcr of the consti
tution by si.cli pitiful fophif i s ?
1 answer Mr Dumolar I by that bun
die of addresses lying on the tab!., which
vcrv Well proves that there have been col
leftive deliberations; I anlwer him by
the petition of Mr. La Fayette itfe'f:
"The outrages of the 20th of June,"
fays he, '■ have every w ere excited alarms,
and roused the indignation of all the good
:itizens, particularly of the army. In
;hat which I command, the whole of the
jfficers, non-commillioned ofTicers and sol.
have but one sentiment*—l have
promifrd to them," adds he, "to express in
dividually the general sentiment." It is
evident then, f;om Mr. La Fayette's own
words, that he was the bearer of the com
mon requefl, of the colledlive request ol
bis army, which, in the terms of the con
Hitution, cannot deliberate. He has then
violated the constitution.
He came alone, fays Mr. Dumolard
Well ! and what of that, gentlemen :
I'he petition that he brought you con
ained the request of all his army. Out
:annot with a word change the nature ol
1 thing. The petition was here collettive.
('though the individuality of it has beer
"o roundly (fined.
He may fay purhaps, that it is as all
ien, and not as general, that he has addref
ed yon. But he will not then fay that
t is the common sentiment of his army
lhat he has expressed. Let h'm chooft
lere : either it was his own individual-re.
tjueft, or ii was that of his whole army
In the firft cafe, he h<s (landered his ar
my, in pretending to be the bearer of thcii
:ommon lequcft ; in the Ltter, he is c>d
pable for having delivered a request p>ohi
bited by the constitution. But who doei
not fee here that the general, not daring
to attack openly the constitution, ha* tri
sd by a fubterfuge to cover his vialatior
t>f the law ? Who does not fee that he ha:
presented himfelf as a citizen 'n order tc
liave a hole to creep o,it at, and that Ik
bas prefenicd the requ ft of the whole ar
my to intimidate the National AfTembly
In short, who does not fee in this farce, ii
which the legiflalive body and the c<Ttfti
tution are so impudently iniulted, an ag
gravation of his crimes
Yes, gentlemen, it is very possible thai
in t e firft moments of the operation of <
constitution, the principles of which arc
not familiar ; when every thing temjs tc
provoke the execution of the laws ol
which the provisions are numerous and
complicated , it is very pofiible to violatt
the confti ulion without knowing it, anc
to appear culpable without being so. Il
is, for example, very natural to believe,
that the non commjjioned officers andfoldler.
from their being petfuaded that they did
no more than fulfil a sacred duty, in tefti
fying their indignation against the event!
of the 20th of June, were ignorant ol
what they did, and that every thing wai
disguised in order to deceive than. lam
therefore very far from regarding all theft
petitions as culpable ; but can there be
any one weak enough to believe, that Mr,
La Fayette, who himfelf assisted in the
revision of the conftiiution, who himfell
so kited with considerable vva'mth the re
ftridive law concerning petitions; who
has himfelf laid down the principle, that
every armed force is ejfential'y obedient: 1
fay, can there be any one weak enough to
believe him ignorant of this famous law,
this well known princ'ple ! he has violated
th :n wilfully. He knew them, fays Mr.
Dumolard, and he has adhered to ttiem ;
for it was to put a Hop to the coll.stive
reqnefts that he came to Paris ; that is tc
fay, that to put a (lop to a colledlive re
quest, he consolidates it with his own, and
presents it hinfelf: that is to fay, that tc
prevent the violation of the law, already
consummated, he gives it his fanftion !
he becomes the organ of it ! thus, doubly
to violate the law is to refpeft it, in the
eyes of Mr Dumolard.
What a cause, great God! must it be
that is reduced for defence to such
puerile sophistry I—The signature of m\
letter of the 16th of June was doubted,
Mr. La Fayette has said you should have
signed it afre(h and ftaiJ a' your camp.—
But the king's life was in danger from the
commotions in the capita':—The Nation
al Affcmbly was there rea('y to protefl
him or pei ifli by his Cde.— The fame fears
were entertained for the National Aflem
tily :—What ! had it then teftified any
such apprehensions ? Did not every day
after the 20th of June bring you fatisfac
tory accounts ? from the 22d was not all
q'liet at Paris, except in the seditious
minds of the ministry and the direflory oj
the Department ? What could alarm you
on the 26th that you (hould intrude on us
your unafked-for and infuhtng protection !
Had you forgot our troops? Could you
doubt that the forty tlioufand national
guards; that the piques whose courage you
had so well proved on the sth and Bth of
October, 1789; that the brave fellows
whom you had seen diflinguillied them
(elves on thole memorable days, would not
form an l'mpregmble rampart round the
person of the king ? Yes, you have calum
niated by your petition, the people, the
national guards, the army and this afTem
bly. This confideiation alone islufficient
to condemn Mr La Fayette, e»en if there
exifled no politive law to that effedl. i r.
Dumolard has denied that there is any
law, which forbids a general or his soldierS
to present petitions. He forgot then the
a ticleofthe conllitution that I have just
quoted. He has forgot then the pofitivt
law ciied by Mr. i-afojree, and which I
Hi all read once more to the National /f
---fembly :—" Every deliberation," fays the
law of the 21 (I of September, 1791, "held
by the nati .nalguards npon affairs of state,
of their department, dillri£t or commune,
except such as are ltgally referred to the
disciplinary councils, shall be considered as
a seditious attempt upon the public liber
ty, a crime against the constitution, f r
which all tho!e who may be active in
forming such afTemblies, or who may pre
side at their deliberations, fliall be respon
sible." This law, gentlemen, so impera
tive for the national guard, ought to be
much more so for the regular forces It
is impoflible to answer this argument;
and it is for that reason, I suppose, that
Mr. Dumolard has not attempted
Here, gentlemen, the attack on the con
stitution is so much the more crminal as
Mr. La Fayette demanded, in the name
of his army, a thing not only unconstitu
tional, but even impoflible : the abolition 0)
the patriotic societies. Mr. Dumolard has
told you, that it was not their abolition
that the general requeftcd, but the fup
pr.ffion of their abuses. This is another
of the cowardly fltifts of the enemies of the
popular societies. Are there not the laws
and the tribunals to putiifh these abuses :
Why not bring the offenders to trial ? It
is because the law would acquit the po
pular societies ; and it is more convenient
to the general and his party to crush them
by a decree. Such, gentlemen, is the real
sense (and Mr. La Fayette will not dare
to deny it to me, who knows his sentiments
on thefubjedt) <f that pafTage in his let
ter where he demands the annihilation ol
the-clubs—And why is he so exasperated
againfl them ? Because they do not fpart
him. He had but one answer to give tc
all his detractors ; —niSory
[jVo be Continued.]
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