orth a good pike wielded by brawny arms.--The
magistrate in his robes may issue any summons he pleases, but it will
be rammed down his throat, and, lest he should be in doubt of this he is
made to know it beforehand. "The Revolution began with pikes and pikes
will finish it."[2385] "Ah," say the regulars of the Tuileries gardens,
"if the good patriots of the Champs de Mars only had had pikes like
these the blue-coats (Lafayette's guards) would not have had such a good
hand!"--"They are to be used everywhere, wherever there are enemies
of the people, to the Chateau, if any can be found there!" They will
override the veto and make sure that the National Assembly will approve
the good laws. To this purpose, the Faubourg St. Antoine volunteers its
pikes, and, to mark the use made of them, it complains that "efforts
are made to substitute an aristocracy of wealth for the omnipotence
of inherited rank." It demands "severe measures against the rascally
hypocrites who, with the Constitution in their hands, slaughter the
people." It declares that "kings, ministers and a civil list will pass
away, but that the rights of man, national sovereignty and pikes will
not pass away," and, by order of the president, the National Assembly
thanks the petitioners, "for the advice their zeal prompts them to give.

The leaders of the Assembly and the people armed with pikes unite
against the rich, against Constitutionalists, against the government,
and henceforth, the Jacobin extremists march side by side with the
Girondins, both reconciled for the attack but reserved their right to
disagree until after the victory.

"The object of the Girondists[2386] is not a republic in name, but an
actual republic through a reduction of the civil lists to five millions,
through the curtailment of most of the royal prerogatives, through a
change of dynasty of which the new head would be a sort of honorary
president of the republic to which they would assign an executive
council appointed by the Assembly, that is to say, by themselves." As
to the Jacobin extremists we find no principle with them but "that of
a rigorous, absolute application of the Rights of Man. With the aid of
such a charter they aim at changing the laws and public officers every
six months, at extending their leveling process to every constituted
authority, to all legal pre-eminence and to property. The only regime
they long for is the democracy of a contentious rabble... The vilest
instr