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fight for you and with you!"
The Representatives consulted whether they should accept this offer.
Schoelcher was inclined to do so. But one of them remarked that some
Mobile Guards had made the same overtures to the insurgents of June, and
had turned against the Insurrection the arms which the Insurrection had
left them.
The muskets therefore were not restored.
The disarming having been accomplished, the muskets were counted; there
were fifteen of them.
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We are a hundred and fifty," said Cournet, "we have not enough
muskets."
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Well, then," said Schoelcher, "where is there a post?"
At the Lenoir Market."
Let us disarm it."
With Schoelcher at their head and escorted by fifteen armed men the
Representatives proceeded to the Lenoir Market. The post of the Lenoir
Market allowed themselves to be disarmed even more willingly than the
post in the Rue de Montreuil. The soldiers turned themselves round so
that the cartridges might be taken from their pouches.
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