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| | Morris, The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, vol. 2 ToC: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | The rage which has been excited was terrible; and, although it begins to subside, the Convention are still in great straits—fearing to acquit, fearing to condemn, and yet urged to destroy their captive monarch. |
 | | I am told that there is a majority even of the Convention who think a king necessary; but, as they see the loss of their own lives in connection with the re-establishment of the throne, it is to be supposed that they would not tell such thoughts. |
 | | It is my opinion that the members of Convention lately arrested will do nothing, for the greater part of them have only parole energy; and if I were called on by any urgent motive to act, it should be in conformity to that idea. |
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