of practical means, he was, is, and will be, in decisive
moments, the consulting counsel of radical democracy.

"His pride tolerates no superiority. He causes nobility to be abolished
because he is not a noble; because he does not possess all he will
destroy all. His fundamental doctrine for the consolidation of the
Revolution is, that it is indispensable to change religion and to change
the dynasty."

Now, had peace been maintained all this was impossible; moreover the
ascendance of the party was compromised. Entire classes that had adhered
to the party when it launched insurrection against the privileged, broke
loose from it now that insurrection was directed against them; among
thoughtful men and among those with property, most were disgusted
with anarchy, and likewise disgusted with the abettors of it. Many
administrators, magistrates and functionaries recently elected,
loudly complained of their authority being subject to the mob.
Many cultivators, manufacturers and merchants have become silently
exasperated at the fruits of their labor and economy being surrendered
at discretion to robbers and the indigent. It was hard for the
flour-dealers of Etampes not to dare send away their wheat, to be
obliged to supply customers at night, to tremble in their own houses,
and to know that if they went out-doors they risked their lives.[2367]
It was hard for wholesale grocers in Paris to see their warehouses
invaded, their windows smashed, their bags of coffee and boxes of sugar
valued at a low price, parceled out and carried away by old hags or
taken gratis by scamps who ran off and sold them at the other end of
the street.[2368] It was hard in all places for the families of the old
bourgeoisie, for the formerly prominent men in each town and village,
for the eminent in each art, profession or trade, for reputable and
well-to-do people, in short, for the majority of men who had a good roof
over their heads and a good coat on their backs, to undergo the illegal
domination of a crowd led by a few hundred or dozens of stump-speakers
and firebrands.--Already, in the beginning of 1792, this dissatisfaction
was so great as to be denounced in the tribune and in the press.
Isnard[2369] railed against "that multitude of large property-holders,
those opulent merchants, those haughty, wealthy personages who,
advantageously placed in the social amphitheater, are unwilling to
have their seats changed." The bourgeoisie," wrote Petion,[237