d they took the
most despotic institutions--centralization, Royal Council, lieutenants
of police, special tribunals, intendants and sub-delegates; they
disinterred the antique Roman law of lese-majesty, refurbished old
blades which civilization had dulled, aiming them at every throat and
now wielded at random against liberties, property and lives. It is
called the "revolutionary government;" according to official statements
it is to last until peace is secured; in the minds of genuine Jacobins
it must continue until all the French have been regenerated in
accordance with the formula.

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[Footnote 1101: Titus Flavious Clemens, (Greek writer born in Athens
around 150 and dead in Cappadoce in 250) He lived in Alexandria. (SR).]

[Footnote 1102: The words of Marat.]

[Footnote 1103: After the Constitution is completed, said Legendre, in
the Jacobin club, we will make the federalists dance.]

[Footnote 1104: Archives Nationales, F.I.C.. 56, (Circular of Gohier,
Minister of Justice, to the French people, July 6, 1793). "Certain
persons are disposed to pervert the events of May 31 and June 2,
by atrocious exaggerations and the grossest fables, and prevent the
fortunate results they present from being seen. They are absolutely
determined to see nothing but violations of the liberty of the people's
representatives in a step which was specially designed to hasten on the
Constitutional Act on which the liberty of all is established. Of what
consequence is it who are the authors of the Constitution presented
to you? What does it matter whether it issues from a mountain amidst
lightning and the rolling thunder, like the Tables of the Law given
to the Hebrews, or whether it comes, like the laws given to the early
Romans, inspired in the tranquil asylum of a divinity jealous of his
religious surroundings? Is this constitution worthy of a free people?
That is the only question which citizens who wear the livery of no party
need examine!"]

[Footnote 1105: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 177. (report by Herault
Sechelles, June 10, 1793). Ibid, XXXI., 400. (Text of constitution
submitted to discussion June 11th, and passed June 24th.)]

[Footnote 1106: De Sybel, II., 331. (According to the facsimile
published in the Quarterly Review). "Herault says that he and four of
his colleagues are ordered to furnish the draft of a constitution by
Monday."]

[Footnote 1107: Report by Herault-Sechelles. (Buchez et Roux, XXVIII.
178.)]

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