, "whether the King's
name be Ludovicus or Jacobus?" "Or Philippus!" rejoins Proly;--and
hastens to report progress. Over the Frontiers such hope is there.

Chapter 3.3.V.

Sansculottism Accoutred.

Let us look, however, at the grand internal Sansculottism and Revolution
Prodigy, whether it stirs and waxes: there and not elsewhere hope may
still be for France. The Revolution Prodigy, as Decree after Decree
issues from the Mountain, like creative fiats, accordant with the nature
of the Thing,--is shaping itself rapidly, in these days, into terrific
stature and articulation, limb after limb. Last March, 1792, we saw all
France flowing in blind terror; shutting town-barriers, boiling pitch
for Brigands: happier, this March, that it is a seeing terror; that a
creative Mountain exists, which can say fiat! Recruitment proceeds with
fierce celerity: nevertheless our Volunteers hesitate to set out, till
Treason be punished at home; they do not fly to the frontiers; but only
fly hither and thither, demanding and denouncing. The Mountain must
speak new fiat, and new fiats.

And does it not speak such? Take, as first example, those Comites
Revolutionnaires for the arrestment of Persons Suspect. Revolutionary
Committee, of Twelve chosen Patriots, sits in every Township of France;
examining the Suspect, seeking arms, making domiciliary visits and
arrestments;--caring, generally, that the Republic suffer no detriment.
Chosen by universal suffrage, each in its Section, they are a kind of
elixir of Jacobinism; some Forty-four Thousand of them awake and alive
over France! In Paris and all Towns, every house-door must have the
names of the inmates legibly printed on it, 'at a height not exceeding
five feet from the ground;' every Citizen must produce his certificatory
Carte de Civisme, signed by Section-President; every man be ready to
give account of the faith that is in him. Persons Suspect had as well
depart this soil of Liberty! And yet departure too is bad: all Emigrants
are declared Traitors, their property become National; they are 'dead in
Law,'--save indeed that for our behoof they shall 'live yet fifty
years in Law,' and what heritages may fall to them in that time become
National too! A mad vitality of Jacobinism, with Forty-four Thousand
centres of activity, circulates through all fibres of France.

Very notable also is the Tribunal Extraordinaire: (Moniteur, No. 70,
(du 11 Mars), No. 76, &c.) decreed by the Mountain