We recommend to the voters of the department of Gers the circular that one of our editors, Mr. Bellegarrigue, has just addressed to them:

Fellow citizens!

Right has extended its hand over force and force has bowed down.

The French people have torn up the soiled act that the legislators without mandate had passed between themselve and a royal bastard.

They are called today to write the solemn clauses of the contract that must safeguard their social franchises and their political liberties.

Do not forget, in this crowning moment, that all tyrannies have their source in the apathy of the People regarding the direct exercise of their rights.

That for nations, as for individuals, there is salvation only in self-confidence.

That as all strength, all intelligence and all integrity resides in the nation, the nation must not alienate its strength, its intelligence, or its integrity in favor of any citizen.

That beyond the genius of a man, there is always a master.

That at the height of genius of a nation, there is never anything but a principle.

Do not forget that by instituting a government, peoples enjoy their sovereignty more or less according to the prerogatives they grant it.

The the greatness, majesty, power and wealth of the People are only guaranteed by the modesty, simplicity, weakness and poverty of the government.

That, like families, nations are only well governed economically when they are governing themselves.

That a government is only strong with the nation’s money, while a only remains strong by keeping its money.

The where the government is everything, the people are nothing.

That when the Government has a will, that will cannot be the will of the People, and that not being that of the People, it is against the People.

That every Government is subject to error;

That the nation can never be mistaken;

And that of two persons, one of whom is infallible and the other of whom is fallible, the only one who should act is the infallible person.

That when a Government possesses, beyond its attributions rigoureuses, one power of the People, it takes four from them; that when it has four, it strains to have them all; that when it has them all, the void made in the nation and the Government is submerged in the blood of the People.

No mistrust: mistrust is the daughter of usurpation and the People are legitimate.

No vengeance: vengeance is the daughter of hatred and the People are magnanimous.

No proscriptions: proscription is the daughter of fear and the People are brave.

No terror: terror is the daughter of weakness and the People are strong.

These are, fellow citizens, in their summary state, the thoughts that must direct you in the choice of your mandataires constituans.

Born in your midst; raised in the patriarchal school of domestic honor; arriving at experience early; instructed in the rudiments and practice of the democratic life of various races and societies; a worker in thought on the sites of the periodical press, I present myself to you in order to uphold, with all my intelligence, energy and loyalty, the sacred principle of our common liberties.

The mandate is great; it is noble; it is glorious; but I will say to you that I am proud of it only after having proved to you that I am worthy of it.

» Salut et fraternité,

BELLEGARRIGUE.