"Read his placards. He grants you--what infamous mockery!--the right of conferring on him, on him _alone_, the Constituent power; that is to say, the Supreme power, which belongs to you. He grants you the right to appoint him Dictator _for ten years_. In other words, he grants you the right of abdicating and of crowning him. A right which even you do not possess, O People! for one generation cannot dispose of the sovereignty of the generation which shall follow it. "Yes, he grants to you, Sovereign, the right of giving yourself a master, and that master himself. "Hypocrisy and treason! "People! we unmask the hypocrite. It is for you to punish the traitor! "The Committee of Resistance: "Jules Favre, De Flotte, Carnot, Madier de Montjau, Mathieu (de la Drôme), Michel de Bourges, Victor Hugo." Baudin had fallen heroically. It was necessary to let the People know of his death, and to honor his memory. The decree below was voted on the proposition of Michel de Bourges:-- "DECREE. "The Representatives of the People remaining at liberty considering that the Representative Baudin has died on the barricade of the Faubourg St. Antoine for the Republic and for the laws, and that he has deserved well of his country, decree: "That the honors of the Panthéon are adjudged to Representative Baudin. "Given in Permanent Session, 3d December, 1851." After honor to the dead and the needs of the conflict it was necessary in my opinion to enunciate immediately and dictatorially some great popular benefit. I proposed the abolition of the _octroi_ duties and of the duty on liquors. This objection was raised, "No caresses to the people! After victory, we will see. In the meantime let them fight! If they do not fight, if they do not rise, if they do not understand that it is for them, for their rights that we the Representatives, that we risk our heads at this moment--if they leave us alone at the breach, in the presence of the _coup d'état_--it is because they are not worthy of Liberty!" Bancel remarked that the abolition of the _octroi_ duties and the duty on liquors were not caresses to the People, but succor to the poor, a great economical and reparatory measure, a satisfaction to the public demand--a satisfaction which the Right had always obstinately refused, and that the Left, master of the situation, ought hasten to accord. They voted, with the reservation that it should not be published until after victory, the two decrees in one; in this form:-- "DECREE. "The Representatives remaining at liberty decree: "The _Octroi_ Duties are abolished throughout the extent of the territory of the Republic. "Given in permanent Session, 3d December, 1851."