n, and, on the other hand, the tyranny of the fanatical and
brutal rabble which assumes to itself all the rights of sovereignty.

II.--The Assembly hostile to the oppressed and favoring oppressors.

Decrees against the nobles and clergy.--Amnesty for
deserters, convicts, and bandits.--Anarchical and leveling
maxims.

In vain do the honest men of the Assembly protest against this scandal
and this overthrow. The Assembly, guided and forced by the Jacobins,
will only amend the law to damn the oppressed and to authorize their
oppressors.--Without making any distinction between armed assemblages at
Coblentz, which it had a right to punish, and refugees, three times
as numerous, old men, women and children, so many indifferent and
inoffensive people, not merely nobles but plebeians,[2312] who left the
soil only to escape popular outrages, it confiscates the property of all
emigrants and orders this to be sold.[2313] Through the new restriction
of the passport, those who remain are tied to their domiciles, their
freedom of movement, even in the interior, being subject to the decision
of each Jacobin municipality.[2314] It completes their ruin by depriving
them without indemnity of all income from their real estate, of all
the seignorial rights which the Constituent Assembly had declared to
be legitimate.[2315] It abolishes, as far as it can, their history
and their past, by burning in the public depots their genealogical
titles.[2316]--To all unsworn ecclesiastics, two-thirds of the French
clergy, it withholds bread, the small pension allowed them for food,
which is the ransom of their confiscated possessions;[2317] it declares
them "suspected of revolt against the law and of bad intentions against
the country;" it subjects them to special surveillance; it authorizes
their expulsion without trial by local rulers in case of disturbances;
it decrees that in such cases they shall be banished.[2318] It
suppresses "all secular congregations of men and women ecclesiastic or
laic, even those wholly devoted to hospital service will take away from
600,000 children the means of learning to read and write."[2319] It lays
injunctions on their dress; it places episcopal palaces in the market
for sale, also the buildings still occupied by monks and nuns.[2320]
It welcomes with rounds of applause a married priest who introduces his
wife to the Assembly.--Not only is the Assembly destructive but it
is insulting; the aut