w, Thermidor 9,
year II." This Girard, who was very liberal early in the revolution, was
president of his section in 1789, but, after the 10th of August, he had
kept quiet. The committee of the section of the "Amis de la Patrie,"
"considering that citizen Girard.... came forward only at the time when
the court and Lafayette prevailed against the sans-culottes;" that,
"since equality was established by the Revolution he has deprived his
fellow citizens of his knowledge, which, in a revolution, is criminal,
unanimously agree that the said citizen is "suspect" and order "him to
be sent to the Luxembourg."]

[Footnote 2118: Ludovic Sciout, "Histoire de la Constitution civile
du clerge," IV., 131, 135. (Orders issued by Dartigoyte and de
Pinet).--"Recueil de pieces authentiques serrant a l'histoire de la
revolution a Strasbourg." Vol. I. p. 230. (Speech by Schneider at Barr,
for marrying the patriot Funck.) Schneider, it appears, did still better
on his own account. (Ibid., 317).]

[Footnote 2119: Buchez et Roux, XXIX., 160. (Report of Saint-Just,
October 20, 1793.) "You have to punish not only traitors, but even the
indifferent; you must punish all in the Republic who are passive and do
nothing for it."]

[Footnote 2120: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 338. Report of the Convention
on the theory of democratic government, by Billaud-Varennes (April 20,
1794).]

[Footnote 2121: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 270. Report by Robespierre,
on the principles which should guide the National Convention in the
internal administration of the Republic, February 5, 1794.--Cf. "The
ancient Regime," 227-230, the ideas of Rousseau, of which those of
Robespierre are simply a recast.]

[Footnote 2122: Ibid., 270.--The pretension of reforming men's
sentiments is found in all the programs. Ibid., 305. (Report of
Saint-Just, February 26, 1794.) "Our object is to create an order of
things establishing a universal inclination toward the good, and to have
factions immediately hurled upon the scaffold." Ibid., 337. (Report of
Saint-Just, March 13, 1794.--Ibid., 337. (Report of Saint-Just, March
13, 1794.) "We see but one way of arresting the evil, and that is to
convert the revolution into a civil power and wage war on every species
of perversity, as designedly created amongst us for the enervation of
the republic."]

[Footnote 2123: Ibid., XXXV., 276. (Institutions, by Saint-Just.--Ibid.,
287.)--Moniteur, XVIII., 343. Meeting of the Jacobin Club, Brumaire