ty "of either sex," even a simple fugitive,
even returned within six months;[3465]

* through the decree which "outlaws aristocrats and enemies of the
Revolution";[3466]

* through the decree which, in each commune, establishes a tax on
the wealth of the commune in order to adapt the price of bread to
wages;[3467]

* through the decree which subjects every bag of grain to declaration
and to the maximum (price control);[3468]

* through the decree which awards six years in irons for any traffic in
the currency;[3469]

* through the decree which orders a forced loan of a billion, extorted
from the rich;[3470]

* through the decree which raises in each town a paid army of
sans-culottes "to hold aristocrats under their pikes "[3471] and at
last,

* through the decree which, instituting the Committee of Public
Safety,[3472] fashions a central motor to set these sharp scythes agoing
and mow down fortunes and lives with the utmost rapidity.--

To these engines of general destruction it adds one more, which is
special and operates against itself. Not only does it furnish its rivals
of the Commune with the millions they need to pay their bands; not only
does it advance to the different sections,[3473] in the form of a loan,
the hundreds of thousands of francs which are needed to satisfy the
thirst of their yelpers; but again, at the end of March, just at the
moment when it happens to escape the first Jacobin invasion, it
provides for the election by each section of a Committee of Supervision,
authorized to make domiciliary visits and to disarm the suspected;[3474]
it allows this committee to make arrests and inflict special taxes; to
facilitate its operations it orders a list of the inmates of each house,
legibly "stating names, surnames, ages and professions," to be affixed
to the entrance,[3475] a copy of which must be left with the committee,
and which is subject to its control.

To end the matter, it submits itself; and, "regardless of the
inviolability of a representative of the French nation,"[3476] it
decides that, in case of political denunciation, its own members may be
brought to trial.

V. Jacobin violence against the people.

Committees of Supervision after March 28, 1793.--The regime
of August and September, 1792, revived.--Disarmament.
--Certificates of civism.--Forced enlistment.--Forced loans.
--Use made of the sums raised.--Vain resistance of the
population.--Manife