The Central Committee really appears to have published in the
Journal Officiel a kind of proclamation declaring Princes enemies of the human race, to be killed wherever met. The writer is speaking of the Duke d'Aumale, who, he says, only travelled alive from Bordeaux to Versailles "because the moral and civic sense has become greatly weakened." A pretended morality calls an act of justice an assassination. A prince, even if he happen to have become enlightened, "should expiate in retiring exile the misfortune and the shame of his birth." "Society has but one duty towards princes,—death. It is bound but to one formality,—proof of identity." Very good ; but then why grum- ble when society, which on this showing is above all moral right, says it has but one duty towards Revolutionists,—death ; and but one formality to fulfil,—identification? If society shoots M. Valliant for writing that delirious rubbish, why is society to blame? It only directs his own teaching to a worthier object.
