In 1887 another son was born, on 14 July; as this was Bastille Day the boy was named Danton Condorcet. By this time he had thrown himself completely into the campaign for a republic, to the extent of giving up his place at the bar and dissolving his partnership with (pt) . On January 28, 1888 he held the first republican rally in the country. From then until the end of 1889, he dedicated himself to the republican campaign, traveling tbetween Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais. His outspokenness earned him many enemies and on one occasion his life fecwas threatened by the ultramonarchist Guarda Negra.