Pierre-Jean-Louis CAMPMAS (1756-1821) conventional (Tarn), o - Lot 297

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Pierre-Jean-Louis CAMPMAS (1756-1821) conventional (Tarn), o - Lot 297
Pierre-Jean-Louis CAMPMAS (1756-1821) conventional (Tarn), of the "Montagnard" party. L.A.S., Paris June 19, II (1793), to his "Brothers and Friends"; 4 pages in-8 filled with a tight handwriting. Very interesting letter on the completion of the Constitution, and on the struggle between the Mountain and the Plain. He announces the completion of the Constitution which will be the "rallying point for the true friends of liberty. [...] meditated during more than six months, and reviewed with the most scrupulous attention, by all that the National Convention possesses of philantropic and enlightened men, it seems to gather the suffrages of the patriots even the most lukewarm". Campmas warns against the maneuvers of the "secret agents of the aristocracy" who want to thwart this Constitution... "postpone any premature judgment on what one calls mountain or plain, because such a man to whom you lavish praise, could very well find himself in less than fifteen days, at the head of the rebels of the Vendée, or of the emigrants who are in Jernsey". He denounces the actions ofDUMOURIEZ who "has watered the campaigns of Belgium with the blood of a thousand of our brothers, only to deliver us all to the knife of the tyrants". He speaks about MARAT, "author of some newspapers which I do not read and which one says incendiary". The Conveention is divided into two parties: "The party that is called the Mountain, made fall the head of the tyrant, and it can save itself only by founding the Republic. The party that is called the plain, the swamp, is composed of good people, but who are afraid of their own shadow and who have never known how to rise to the height of the critical circumstances in which we are placed. [...] Is this a reason to rush into the horrors of a civil war? It would be to play into the hands of the aristocrats and to hand over the country to destruction. "I desire, not in the manner of the priests, but as a true Republican, that peace be with you. [...] I will always embrace the cause of the people"... Former collection of Patrice Hennessy (with his stamp).
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