text:  The gallant republican was not to be repelled; he poured out upon me as he warmed with the theme so vast a catalogue of public injuries in language so menacing yet so eloquent that I was forced to ask whether I was standing in the midst of a Jacobin club--whether his object was actually to establish a democracy to govern by the guillotine to close up the churches and inscribe the tombs with--death is an eternal sleep; to swear to the extinction of monarchy and proclaim universal war