wardly
satellites of royal despotism, vile agents of foreign tyrants."--Wallon,
II., 407, 409. (Letter of Fouquier-Tinville to the convention). "After
the special debates, will not each of the accused demand a general
prosecution? The trial, accordingly, will be interminable. Besides,
one may ask why should there be witnesses? The convention, all France,
accuses those on trial. The evidence of their crimes is plain; everybody
is convinced of their guilt.... It is the Convention which must
remove all formalities that interfere with the course pursued by the
tribunal."--Moniteur, XVII., (Session of October 28), 291. The decree
provoked by a petition of Jacobins, is passed on motion of Osselin,
aggravated by Robespierre.]

[Footnote 11109: Louvet, "Memoires," 321. (List of the Girondists who
perished or who were proscribed. Twenty-four fugitives survived.)]

[Footnote 11110: Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 395, 416, 435. The terror and
disgust of the majority is seen in the small number of voters. Their
abstention from voting is the more significant in relation to the
election of the dictators. The members of the Committee of Public
Safety, elected on the 16th of July, obtain from one hundred to one
hundred and ninety-two votes. The members of the Committee of Security
obtain from twenty-two to one hundred and thirteen votes. The members
of the same committee, renewed on the 11th of September, obtain
from fifty-two to one hundred and eight votes. The judges of the
revolutionary tribunal, completed on the 3rd of August, obtain from
forty-seven to sixty-five votes.--Meillan, 85. (In relation to the
institution of the revolutionary government, on motion of Bazire, Aug.
28). "Sixty or eighty deputies passed this decree... it was preceded by
another passed by a plurality of thirty against ten. .. For two months
the session the best attended, contains but one hundred deputies. The
Montagnards overran the departments to deceive or intimidate the people.
The rest, discouraged, keep away from the meetings or take no part in
the proceedings."]

[Footnote 11111: The meaning and motives of this declaration are clearly
indicated in Bazire's speech. "Since the adoption of the Constitution,"
he says, "Feuillantism has raised its head; a struggle has arisen
between energetic and moderate patriots. At the end of the Constituent
Assembly, the Feuillants possessed themselves of the words law, order,
public, peace, security, to enchain the zeal o