iction for the future residence of Congress. In every
one of the places where Congress resided, the municipal authority
privately or publicly opposed itself to the authority of Congress, and
the people of each of those places expected more attention from Congress
than their equal share with the other States amounted to. The same thing
now takes place in France, but in a greater excess."

Danton knew all this, and he is sufficiently clear-headed to comprehend
the danger; but the furrow is laid out, traced, and by himself.
Since the 10th of August Paris holds France down while a handful of
revolutionaries tyrannize Paris.[3402]

I.--Jacobin advantages.

Their sway in the section assemblies.--Maintenance,
re-election and completion of the Commune.--Its new chiefs,
Chaumette, Hebert and Pache.--The National Guard recast.
--Jacobins elected officers and sub-officers.--The paid band
of roughs.--Public and secret funds of the party.

Owing to the composition and the holding of the section assemblies,
the original source of power has remained Jacobin, and has become of a
darker and darker hue; accordingly, the electoral processes which, under
the legislative body, had fashioned the usurping Commune of the 10th of
August, are perpetuated and aggravated under the Convention.[3403] "In
nearly all the sections[3404] it is the sans-culottes who occupy the
chair, arrange things inside the chamber, place the sentinels and
provide the censors and auditors. Five or six spies, familiar with the
section, and paid forty sous a day, remain during the session, and ready
to undertake any enterprise. These same individuals will take orders
from one Committee of Surveillance to another,.. so that if the
sans-culottes of one section are not strong enough they may call in
those of a neighboring section."--In such assemblies the elections are
decided beforehand, and we see how the faction keeps forcibly in its
hands, or obtains by force, every elective position. The Council of
the Commune, in spite of the hostile inclinations of the Legislative
Assembly and the Convention, succeeds at first in maintaining itself
four months; then, in December,[3405] when it is at last compelled
to break up, it reappears through the authorization of the suffrage,
reinforced and completed by its own class, with three chiefs, a
syndic-attorney, a deputy and a mayor, all three authors or abettors of
the September massacre; with Chaum