Make haste, one of you has said: all evils come from anarchy, just as every small chaos derives from a greater chaos.

General order is thus the only remedy.

When the usurpations, having corrupted all desires, confounded all powers, overwhelmed all pleasures, when the hydra of tyranny, having multiplied all over, and infected every channel of the Law, how could you expect the oppressed to continue to demand with moderation what has always been violently stolen from them? Do you not see that a long oppression, must crush the barrier that separates liberty from insubordination.

Hasten to cease the oppression, to rebuild this barrier, to ensure all citizens the enjoyment of all their rights, awarding to all equal treatment under the law.

Hasten to tell the constituent powers - legislative, executive, and judiciary - what God said to the waves when pouring them into the ocean: “you will move within these boundaries and you will not cross these boundaries.”¹

But proceed slowly, the pillars must be strong and fortified so that no tyrants have the power to move them. Know that for the greater good, these embankments cannot ever be destroyed for particular interests.
 SECOND CRY
 Hasten to give arms to all Citizens of the Kingdom.

Listen to the noise of shackles made by the Aristocracy; may the rage of the people always be ready to find courage for liberty.

Do not entrust these sacred flags to brute force however, do not remove the Plowman from his unplowed fields, do not arm ignorance and misery.

1. Jeremiah 5:22: 'Do you not fear Me?' declares the LORD 'Do you not tremble in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it (From the New American Standard Bible). –Trans.

But at any given time, in Villages, Towns, and Cities, Landowners, whom fortune favors, should look after their own safety both inside & outside, protect the cottages of the poor, and never be without weapons for the defense of their Fatherland.

Who is the Aristocrat who will dare to devise odious plans when they will surely be crushed at once? Where are the bold, who, counting on the disagreements and confusion of circumstances, will dare to attack a Nation always on the defensive; an Empire of twenty-five million men of whom the majority will be armed at all times. .

In this way, even during peacetime, Greece in its wisdom always led its soldiers in exercise every day, showing the King of Kings, even in their games, what they were ready to do to defend liberty. .
 THIRD CRY
Hasten to chain up the Aristocrats, those atrocious tyrants who earlier attacked our life and what is more than life, our liberty. Chain them up, even if only to protect them from the avenging sword of the People who overthrew them. Justice for Nations arrives slowly but the outbursts of violence are terrible.

These worthless sycophants have shamefully smiled upon the people, to flatter their rage, like the tiger smirks at a lion it could not rip up; but the people did not believe in their smirk; the people could see in the distorted expression of their perfidious joy, only the grimaces of coercion and cowardice.

The People know the heart of the Aristocracy, they know it is devoured by pride, miserliness, and jealousy; they know that force alone can make them renounce their awful privileges; they know that their hands would rather ratify

the blind decrees of despotism that they cheat and shackle, than rally behind our dignified Representatives and sign the charter for Liberty.

Finally, the People, do not hold against them the bad that they do not do, because they only attribute their inaction to their helplessness; they fear their sinister schemes, they fear that on the first occasion, they will return to the route of corruption from which they have just been chased away.

Chain them up, to shield them from the fury of an enraged Nation, which having begun a scene of prescriptions will not stop seeking revenge.

Chain them up to protect yourselves from their criminal schemes.

So the People do not have to punish them a second time. New crimes would bring about punishments that would know no limits, and the entirety of France would be devastated. Forewarn these tragedies, which the internal furor they harbor might be preparing for us in the middle of a deceitful calm.

Pray for the Monarch to banish for a long time from the Kingdom those among them whose names do not bring shame upon the list of your noble names.

Pay the greatest attention to every move others make; at the least infraction exclude them from , you have the right to do so, they have already been judged, their peers could not reproach you for an act of justice.

Have a secure place, guarded by soldiers of the Fatherland, so their person can be safe for the duration of your work; or let an exile, far from this Fatherland that tears their heinous ambition, deliver us from their harmful presence; it is the mildest punishment that could be demanded by an offended People who for a long time have been their victim.

FOURTH CRY
Hasten to supply the poor with stable sustenance.

All of the plagues have come together to worsen the plague of misery.

To the long tyranny of the Aristocrat, the Nobles, the Priests, the wealthy Landowners and the Rich people which caused so many people to be poor despite a fertile ground which since then has become bare for the most of them, have been added the ravage of storms, an awful winter, a late season, the undoing of the Government, the appropriation of Monopoly.

Of the twenty-five million men who live in my Fatherland, eighteen million, at least, are dying of hunger.

Money, held by a few hands, does not circulate.

All the manufactures and the most useful, the most productive of them all, Agriculture, languish because of a lack of resources, because the sense of active emulation given by the spirit of land ownership is lacking.

We might soon resemble the Moors whom the Romans so easily conquered, because their whole country, ungrateful to the degraded and oppressed multitudes of the poor, was the prey of just a few great Landowners.

While waiting for a just Constitution to bring back among us the reign of morals and laws, to re-establish equal justice in land ownership and wealth, and to ensure a salary and jobs for the poor, while waiting for the gold and harshness of the rich to stop making humanity moan, ensure daily bread for its artisans, these day Laborers and these plowmen who feed you, who provide heat for you, who clothe you, and who themselves do not have their own clothing, heat, or food.

What good will a wise constitution do for a malnourished people ravaged by famine?

What good will it do for the People to have avoided the yoke of Aristocrats, of which a part, at least, used to nourish them, if the inhumanity of the rich will let them perish in misery?

What use will be the arms of those with property to 20 million men without property?

If you do not confine yourself to only defending the properties of the rich which surely would not be defending the Fatherland, if you entrust weapons for the defense of all to men whose sole property is their person, at the very least, make sure that this property, the most sacred of all, be respected always.

Quickly open workshops everywhere and set a wage for the workers

Prohibit with the most threatening prohibitions the introduction of foreign merchandise to force rich employers, whom their luxury devours, to employ all their fellow Citizens.

Give the people land to work upon, do not trust the ambivalent help offered by an inattentive humanity.

Let the Laws promptly create an exchange of wealth between the rich and the poor, who will guard and defend them.

Establish a provisionaltax that will be collected by the Commanders of Militiamen; place it in municipal Accounts and deliver it to non-property owning Militiamen as payment for their services to other poor people, to reduce their misery.

Then you will be able to employ men without private property for the defense of the Fatherland because a solid subsistence will ensure that they are committed to you.

These Artisans, these Day Laborers, these Plowmen, 15 million poor people will be loyal to you, because

you will be just and humane, and they will defend you, because you nourish them; as opposed to the gold and tricks of the Aristocrats that will otherwise easily appeal to their ignorance and misery.

It is not in the midst of the most awful deprivation that the holy voice of liberty can be heard.

It can only be heard by the spirit when the needs of the body are satisfied? One thinks of one’s self-conservation before thinking of the conservation of one’s liberty.

The voice of liberty says nothing to the heart of someone who is miserable and dying of hunger.

Otherwise, it is to be feared that after the landowners have shaken the yoke of the Aristocrats, all the poor excluded by the greedy selfishness of property owners, will crush the unjust titles of ownership.

Spare the landowners who dare to punish with death theft, caused foremost by their greed, their harshness, these attacks on humanity that should not be sanctioned by atrocious laws.

Protect the landowners from the terrible upcoming insurrection of 20 million poor people without property.

Feed your People, or your work will be in vain, it will be constantly halted, because you will always have close to you, in misery a source of sedition and slavery.

My voice is that of true patriotism, because it is the voice of humanity will not stop assailing you until you have fulfilled them, these four cries:

1. Hasten, but with care, to build the foundation for happiness and liberty; establish order after anarchy.
2. Quickly arm all Citizens to defend the Fatherland.
3. Chain up or banish the Aristocrats,

free yourself from their infernal tactics; steal them away from our anger.
4. Feed the indigents so that you are not preaching in vain peace and liberty to men who are dying of hunger.

If my voice were not so tired, I would cry out still: invite the Monarch to your meetings, that your enlightened views constantly illuminate his integrity, bring him along in our midst, shield yourselves, shield him from the efforts of intrigue, from the poison of ill will.But I would be weary that my weakened voice be at the end:
 Vox clamantis in deserto.¹ The End.

1. A voice crying out in the wilderness. –Trans.

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