ionales," F7, 3200. Letter of the
syndic-attorney of Bayeux, May 14, 1792, and letter of the Bayeux
Directory, May 21. "The dubs should be schools of patriotism; they have
become the terror of it. If this scandalous struggle against the law and
legitimate authority does not soon cease liberty, a constitution, and
safeguards for the French people will no longer exist"]

[Footnote 2468: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3253. Letter, of the
Directory of the Bas-Rhin, April 26, 1792, and of Dietrich, Mayor
of Strasbourg, May 8. (The Strasbourg club had publicly invited
the citizens to take up arms, "to vigorously pursue priests and
administrators." )--Letter of the Besancon club to M. Dietrich, May 3.
"If the constitution depended on the patriotism or the perfidy of a few
magistrates in one department, like that of the Bas-Rhin, for instance,
we might pay you some attention, and all the freemen of the empire would
then stoop to crush you. "--Therefore the Jacobin clubs of the Upper and
Lower Rhine send three deputies to the Paris club.]

[Footnote 2469: Moniteur, XII. 558, May 19, 1792. "Letter addressed
through patriotic journalists to all clubs of the Friends of
the Constitution by the patriotic central society, formed at
Clermont-Ferrand." (there is the same centralization between Lyons and
Bordeaux.)]

[Footnote 2470: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3198. Report of Commissioners
Bertin and Rebecqui, April 3, 1792.--Cf. Dumouriez, book II. ch. V. The
club at Nantes wants to send commissioners to inspect the foundries of
the Ile d'Indrette.]

[Footnote 2471: Moniteur, X. 420. Report of M. Cahier, Minister of the
Interior, Feb. 18, 1792. "In all the departments freedom of worship has
been more or less violated... Those who hold power are cited before
the tribunals of the people as their enemies."--On the radical and
increasing powerlessness of the King and his ministers, Cf. Moniteur,
XI. 11 (Dec. 31, 1791).--Letter of the Minister of Finances.--XII. 200
(April 23, 1792), report of the Minister of the Interior.--XIII. 53
(July 4, 1792), letter of the Minister of Justice.]

[Footnote 2472: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 369. Letter of the Directory of
the Basses-Pyrenees, June 25, 1792.--"Archives Nationales," F7, 3200.
Letter of the Directory of Calvados to the Minister of the Interior,
Aug. 3. "We are not agents of the king or his ministers."--Moniteur,
XIII. 103. Declaration of M. de Joly, minister, in the name of his
colleagues (sess