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energetic. No set phrases. Ten lines--an appeal to arms! We are the Law,
and there are occasions when the Law should utter a war-cry. The Law,
outlawing the traitor, is a great and terrible thing. Let us do it."
They interrupted me with "Yes, that is right, a proclamation!"
"Dictate! dictate!"
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Dictate," said Baudin to me, "I will write."
I dictated:-
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TO THE PEOPLE.
Louis Napoléon Bonaparte is a traitor.
He has violated the Constitution.
He is forsworn.
He is an outlaw--"
They cried out to me on every side,--
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That is right! Outlaw him."
Go on."
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