to "hurry up and
slit the throats of the statesmen."[34116]--" We must do something to
put an end to this!" is the slogan of the sans-culottes.--The following
week, at the Jacobin club, as elsewhere, "immediate insurrection is the
order of the day.... What we formerly called the sacred enthusiasm of
freedom and patriotism, is now metamorphosed into the fury of an excited
populace, which can no longer be regulated or disciplined except by
force. There is not one of these scoundrels who would not accept a
counter-revolution, provided they could be allowed to crush and stamp on
the most noted conservatives.[34117].. . The conclusion is that the day,
the hour, the minute that the faction believes that it can usefully and
without risk bring into play all the brigands in Paris,[34118] then
the insurrection will undoubtedly take place." Already the plan of the
massacre is under consideration by the lowest class of fanatics at the
mayoralty, the Eveche, and the Jacobin club.[34119]

Some isolated house is to be selected, with a suite of three rooms
on the ground floor, and a small court in the rear; the twenty-two
Girondists are to be caught in the night and brought to this
slaughter-house arranged beforehand; each in turn is to be passed along
to the last room, where he is to be killed and his body tumbled into
a hole dug in the middle of the court, and then the whole covered over
with quick-lime; it will be supposed that they have emigrated, and,
to establish the fact, false correspondence will be printed.[34120] A
member of the Committee on the Municipal Police declares that the plan
is feasible:

"We will Septemberize(kill) them--not we ourselves, but men who are
ready, and who will be well paid for it."

The Montagnards present Leonard Bourdon and Legendre, make no objection.
The latter simply remarks that the Girondists should not be seized in
the Convention; outside the Convention "they are scoundrels whose death
would save the Republic," and the act is lawful; he would like to
see "with them every rascal on the 'black' side perish without
interfering."--Several, instead of 22 deputies, demand 30 or 32, and
some 300; the suspected of each district may be added, while ten or a
dozen proscription lists are already made out. Through a clean sweep,
executed the same night, at the same hour, they may be conducted to
the Carmelites, near the Luxembourg, and, "if there is not room enough
there," to Bicetre; here, "they will