congratulates them more warmly, allows each one twenty francs, and urges
them to keep on.[3174]--In the mean time, Santerre, summoned to the
general staff headquarters by Roland, hypocritically deplores his
voluntary inability, and persists in not giving the orders, without
which the National Guard cannot move.[3175] At the sections, the
presidents, Chenier, Ceyrat, Boula, Momoro, Collot d'Herbois,
dispatch or take their victims back under pikes. At the Commune, the
council-general votes 12,000 francs, to be taken from the dead,
to defray the expenses of the operation.[3176] In the Committee of
Supervision, Marat sends off dispatches to spread murder through the
departments.--It is evident that the leaders and their subordinates are
unanimous, each at his post and in the service he performs; through
the spontaneous co-operation of the whole party, the command from above
meets the impulse from below;[3177] both unite in a common murderous
disposition, the work being done with the more precision in proportion
to its being easily done.--Jailers have received orders to open the
prison doors, and give themselves no concern. Through an excess of
precaution, the knives and forks of the prisoners have been taken away
from them.[3178] One by one, on their names being called, they will
march out like oxen in a slaughter-house, while about twenty butchers to
each prison, from to two to three hundred in all,[3179] will suffice to
do the work.

V. Abasement and Stupor.

Common workers.--Their numbers.--Their condition.--Their
sentiments.--Effect of murder on the murderers.--Their
degradation.--Their insensibility.

Two kinds of men make up the recruits, and it is especially on their
crude brains that we have to admire the effect of the revolutionary
dogma.

First, there are the Federates of the South, lusty fellows, former
soldiers or old bandits, deserters, bohemians, and scoundrels of
all lands and from every source, who, after finishing their work at
Marseilles and Avignon, have come to Paris to begin over again. "Triple
nom de Dieu!" exclaims one of them, "I didn't come a hundred and eighty
leagues to restrain myself from sticking a hundred and eighty heads
on the end of my pike!"[3180] Accordingly, they form in themselves a
special, permanent, resident body, allowing no one to divert them from
their adopted occupation. "They turn a deaf ear to the excitements of
spurious patriotism";[3181] they are n