and that they cannot
comply with the slow forms of justice when their personal safety and the
safety of the country is in peril?"]

[Footnote 2421: "Archives Nationales." F7, 3197. Dispatches of the three
commissioners, passim, and especially those of May 11, June 10 and
19, 1791 (on affairs in Arles). "The property-owners were a long time
subject to oppression. A few of the factions maintained a reign of
terror over honest folks, who trembled in secret."]

[Footnote 2422: Ibid., Dispatch of the commissioners, June 19: "One of
the Mint gang causes notes to be publicly distributed (addressed to the
unsworn) in these words: 'If you don't "piss-off" you will have to deal
with the gang from the Mint.'"]

[Footnote 2423: "Archives Nationales." F7, 3198. Narration (printed)
of what occurred at Arles, June 9 and 10, 1791.--Dispatch of M. Ripert,
royal commissioner, Aug. 5, 1791.--F 7, 3197. Dispatch of the three
commissioners, June 19. "Since then, many of the farm laborers have
taken the same oath. It is this class of citizens which most eagerly
desires a return to order. "--Other dispatches to the same effect, Oct.
24 and 29, and Dec. 14, 1791.--Cf. "The French Revolution," I. 301,
302.]

[Footnote 2424: "Archives Nationales." F7, 3196. Dispatch of the members
of the Directory of Arles and the municipal officers to the Minister,
March 3, 1792 (with a printed diatribe of the Marseilles municipality)]

[Footnote 2425: Ibid., F7, 3198. Dispatches of the procureur--syndic of
the department to the Minister, Aix, Sept. 14, 15, 20, and 23, 1791.
The electoral assembly declared itself permanent, the constitutional
authorities being fettered and unrecognized.--Dispatch of the members
of the military bureau and correspondence with the Minister, Arles,
Sept.17, 1791.]

[Footnote 2426: Ibid., Dispatch of the commandant of the Marseilles
detachment to the Directory of the department, Sept. 22, 1791: "I feel
that our proceedings are not exactly legal, but I thought it prudent to
acquiesce in the general desire of the battalion."]

[Footnote 2427: "Archives Nationales." Official report of the municipal
officers of Arles on the insurrection of the Mint band, Sept. 2,
1791.--Dispatch of Ripert, royal commissioner, Oct. 2 and 8.--Letter of
M. d'Antonelle, to the Friends of the Constitution, Sept.22. "I cannot
believe in the counter-orders with which we are threatened. Such a
decision in the present crisis would be too inhuman and dan