nce;

* when they designate as order and justice the boundless despotism they
exercise over property and life;

* when their instinct, as narrow and violent as that of a Turkish bey,
comprises only extreme and destructive measures, arrests, deportations,
confiscations, executions, all of which is done with head erect, with
delight as if a patriotic duty, by right of a moral priesthood, in the
name of the people, either directly and tumultuously with their
own hands, or indirectly and legally by the hands of their docile
representatives.

This is the sum of their political system, from which nothing will
detach them; for they are anchored fast to it with the full weight and
with every hold upon it that characterizes their immorality, ignorance
and folly. Through the hypocritical glitter of compulsory parades, their
one fixed idea imposes itself on the orator that he may utter it in
tirades, on the legislator that he may put it into decrees, on the
administrator that he may put it in practice, and, from their opening
campaign up to their final victory, they will tolerate but one
variation, and this variation is trifling. In September, 1792, they
declare by their acts:

"Those whose opinions are opposed to ours will be assassinated, and
their gold, jewels and pocketbooks will belong to us."

In November, 1793, they are to declare through the official inauguration
of the revolutionary government:

"those whose opinions differ from ours will be guillotined and we shall
be their heirs."[33116]

Between this program, which is supported by the Jacobin population
and the program of the Girondins which the majority in the Convention
supports, between Condorcet's Constitution and the summary articles
of M. Saule, it is easy to see which will prevail. "These Parisian
blackguards," says a Girondist, "take us for their valets![33117] Let a
valet contradict his master and he is sure to lose his place. From the
first day, when the Convention in a body traversed the streets to begin
its sessions, certain significant expressions enabled it to see into
what hands it had fallen:

"Why should so many folks come here to govern France," says a bystander,
"haven't we enough in Paris?"[33118]

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[Footnote 3301: Any contempory Western reader take notice!! The proof
of any Jacobin or Socialist or Communist take-over, surreptitious or
open-handed, lies in their take-over of the important posts in politics,
the judicial syste