uments, professional agitators, brigands, fanatics, every sort of
wretch, the hardened and armed poverty-stricken, who, in wild disorder"
march to the attack of property and to "universal pillage" in short,
barbarians of town and country "who form their ordinary army and never
leave it inactive one single day."--Under their universal, concerted and
growing usurpation the substance of power melts wholly away in the hand
of the legal authorities; little by little, these are reduced to vain
counterfeits, while from one end of France, to the other, long before
the final collapse, the party, in the provinces as well as at Paris,
substitutes, under the cry of public danger, a government of might for
the government of law.

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[Footnote 2301: Mercure de France, September 24, 1791.--Cf. Report of M.
Alquier (session of Sept. 23).]

[Footnote 2302: Mercure de France, Oct. 15, 1792 (the treaty with
England was dated Sep. 26, 1786).--Ibid., Letter of M. Walsh, superior
of the Irish college, to the municipality of Paris. Those who use the
whips, come out of a neighboring grog-shop. The commissary of police,
who arrives with the National Guard, "addresses the people, and promises
them satisfaction," requiring M. Walsh to dismiss all who are in the
chapel, without waiting for the end of the mass.--M. Walsh refers to the
law and to treaties.--The commissary replies that he knows nothing about
treaties, while the commandant of the national guard says to those who
laving the chapel, "In the name of human justice, I order you to
follow me to the church of Saint-Etienne, or I shall abandon you to the
people."]

[Footnote 2303: "The French Revolution," Vol. I. pp.261, 263.--"Archives
Nationales," F7, 3185 and 3186 (numerous documents on the rural
disturbances in Aisne).--Mercure de France, Nov. 5 and 26, Dec. 10,
1791.--Moniteur, X. 426 (Nov.22, 1791).]

[Footnote 2304: Moniteur, X. 449, Nov. 23, 1791. (Official report of
the crew of the Ambuscade, dated Sep. 30). The captain, M. d'Orleans,
stationed at the Windward Islands, is obliged to return to Rochefort and
is detained there on board his ship: "Considering the uncertainty of
his mission, and the fear of being ordered to use the same hostilities
against brethren for which he is already denounced in every club in the
kingdom, the crew has forced the captain to return to France."]

[Footnote 2305: Mercure de France, Dec. 17, address of the colonists to
the king.]

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