p their usual supporters against the first
convoy of the deported, "the idlers, the rabble of the harbor, and the
dregs of the people," who overwhelmed them with insults. On this new
demonstration of patriotism the government restores to them their
administrative or judicial "satrapies, and, odious as they are, they are
endured and obeyed, with the mute and mournful obedience of despair."
The soul sinks[5189] on daily perusing the executions of conscripts
and emigres, and on seeing those condemned to transportation constantly
passing by.... All who displease the government are set down on
these lists of the dead, so-called emigres, this or that cure who is
notoriously known not to have left the department." It is impossible
for honest people to vote at the primary assemblies; consequently,
"the elections are frightful. The "brothers" and their friends loudly
proclaim that neither nobles, priests, proprietors, merchants, nor
justice are wanted; everything is to be given up to pillage." Let France
perish rather than accept their domination. "The wretches have announced
that they will not give up their places without overthrowing all,
destroying palaces and setting Paris on fire."

VII. Enforcement of Pure Jacobinism.

Application and aggravation of the laws of the reign of
Terror.--Measures taken to impose civic religion.--Arrest,
transportation, and execution of Priests.--Ostracism
proposed against the entire anti-Jacobin class.--The nobles
or the ennobled, not emigres, are declared foreigners.
--Decrees against emigres of every class.--Other steps taken
against remaining proprietors.--Bankruptcy, forced loan,
hostages.

It is natural that with pure Jacobins one notes the re-appearance of
the pure Jacobinism, the egalitarian and anti-Christian socialism,
the programme of the funereal year; in short, the rigid, plain,
exterminating ideas which the sect gathers together, like daggers
encrusted with gore, from the cast-off robes of Robespierre,
Billaud-Varennes and Collot d'Herbois.[5190]

In the forefront appears the fixed and favorite idea of the
old-fashioned philosophism. By that I mean the consistent and decreed
plan to found a lay religion, and impose the observances and dogmas
of its theories on twenty-six millions of Frenchmen, and, consequently
extirping Christianity, its worship and its clergy. The inquisitors who
hold office multiply, with extraordinary persisten