otherwise than I
have been in relation to the former Louis XVI., who, after his flight
on the 22d of June, appeared to me unworthy of the throne? Can I do
otherwise than abhor royalty, after so many of our regal crimes?"]

[Footnote 3315: Moniteur, XIII. 623, session of Sept. 8, speech by
Lariviere.--"Archives Nationales," CII., 1 to 83. (The official reports
make frequent mention of the dispatch of this comparative lists, and
the Jacobins who send it request the Electoral Assembly to have it read
forthwith.)]

[Footnote 3316: Retif de la Bretonne, "Les Nuits de Paris," Night X. p.
301: "As soon as the primary assemblies had been set up, the plotters
began to work, electors were nominated, and through the vicious system
adopted in the sections, an uproar made it out for a majority of
voices."--Cf. Schmidt, "Tableaux de la Revolution Francaise," I. 98.
Letter of Damour, vice-president of the section of the Theatre-Francais,
Oct.29.--" Un Sejour en France," p.29: "The primary assemblies have
already begun in this department (Pas-de-Calais). We happened to enter a
church, where we found young Robespierre haranguing an audience as small
in point of number as it was in that of respectability. They applauded
vigorously as if to make up for their other shortcomings."]

[Footnote 3317: Albert Babeau, I. 518. At Troyes, Aug.26, the
revolutionaries in most of the sections have it decided that the
relations of an emigre, designated as hostages and the signers of
royalist addresses, shall not be entitled to vote: "The sovereign people
in their primary assembly may admit among its members only pure citizens
against whom there is not the slightest reproach" (resolution of the
Madeleine section).--Sauzay, III. 47, 49 and following pages. At Quinsy,
Aug. 26, Lout, working the Chattily furnaces, along with a hundred of
his men armed with clubs, keeps away from the ballot-box the electors
of the commune of Courcelles, "suspected of incivisme. "--" Archives
Nationales," F7, 3217. Letters of Gilles, justice an the canton of
Roquemaure (Gard), Oct. 31, 1792, and Jan. 23, 1793, on the electoral
proceedings employed in this canton: Dutour, president of the club, left
his chair to support the motion for "lanterning" the grumpy and all the
false patriots... On the 4th of November "he forced contributions
by threatening to cut off heads and destroy houses." He was elected
juge-de-paix.--Another, Magere, "approved of the motion for setting up