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Gazette Of The United States
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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In France, Genmaire reported 166 new proces verbals: 1,364 accepted the Constitution and decrees, 298 rejected decrees but accepted Constitution. Troops before Mentz unanimously adopted the Constitution but opposed re-election decree, conditioning it on primary assemblies.
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Yesterday at 12 o'clock the constitution was sent to all the troops composing the army before Mentz. The constitution was unanimously adopted. But not so of the decree of re-election.
The French soldier, who hopes with reason that the constitution will remedy the evils which their country labours under, feared, not without foundation, that 500 of the former physicians would kill the patient.
Their vote as to this decree and on the constitution was as follows : " We declare to our families and country, that in accepting purely and solely the constitution, -our wish on the mode of re-election will be that which a majority of the primary assemblies in our departments shall announce."
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Mentz
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Yesterday
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166 proces verbals opened: 1364 accepted constitution and decrees, 298 rejected decrees but accepted constitution. troops unanimously adopted constitution, rejected re-election decree, conditioning it on primary assemblies.
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Genmaire reported on new proces verbals accepting or rejecting decrees and Constitution. Constitution sent to army before Mentz yesterday at 12 o'clock; unanimously adopted by troops, but re-election decree opposed. Soldiers expressed hope in Constitution to remedy national evils and fear of re-election harming it. Their vote: accept only Constitution, re-election mode per departmental primary assemblies.