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death-cry of the "Mountain" against the insurgents of Loz?re[69] and
Vend?e can be understood: they had raised the king's white flag; they
accepted leaders and instructions from Coblentz and London. But
neither Bordeaux, Marseilles nor Lyons are royalist, or in alliance
with the foreigner.
"We, rebels!" write the Lyonnese;[70] "Why we see no other than the
tri-color flag waving; the white cockade, the symbol of rebellion, has
never been raised within our walls. We, royalists! Why, shouts of
'Long live the Republic' are heard on all sides, and, spontaneously
(in the session of July 2nd) we have all sworn to fall upon whoever
should propose a king. . . . Your representatives tell you that we
are anti-revolutionaries, we who have accepted the Constitution. They
tell you that we protect ?migr?s when we have offered to surrender all
those that you might indicate. They tell you that our streets are
filled with refractory priests, when we have not even opened the doors
of Pierre-en-Cize (prison) to the thirty-two priests confined there by
the old municipality, without indictment, without any charge whatever
against them, solely because they were priests.
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