f the friends of freedom;
the same manoeuvres are practiced to-day. You must shatter the weapon in
your enemies' hands, which they use against you."--Durand-Maillane, 154.
"The simple execution of constitutional laws," said Bazire, "made for
peaceable times, would be impotent among the conspiracies that surround
you."--Meillan, 108.]

[Footnote 11112: Moniteur, XVIII, 106. (Report of Saint-Just on the
organization of the revolutionary government, October 10th, and the
decree in conformity therewith.) Ibid., 473. (Report of Billaud-Varennes
on a mode of provisional and revolutionary government, Nov. 18th,
and decree in conformity therewith.)--Ib., 479 (session of Nov. 22nd,
1793,.--Speech of Hebrard, spokesman of a deputation from Cantal).
"A central committee of surveillance, a revolutionary army, has been
established in our department. Aristocrats, suspects, the doubtful,
moderates, egoists, all gentlemen without distinguishing those who have
done nothing for the revolution from those who have acted against it,
await in retirement the ulterior measures required by the interests of
the Republic. I have said without distinction of the indifferent from
the suspects; for we hold to these words of Solon's: 'He who is not with
us is against us.'"]

[Footnote 11113: The trousers used in pre-Revolutionary France by the
nobility was called culottes, they terminated just below the knee where
the long cotton or silken stockings would begin. The less affluent used
long trousers and no socks and became known as the Sans-culottes which
became, as mentioned in vol. II. a nickname for the revolutionary
proletariat. (SR.)]

[Footnote 11114: Moniteur, (Speech by Danton, March 26, 1794.) "In
creating revolutionary committees the desire was to establish a species
of dictatorship of citizens the most devoted to liberty over those who
rendered themselves suspects."]

[Footnote 11115: Mallet-Dupan, II., 8. (February, 1794). "At this moment
the entire people is disarmed. Not a gun can be found either in town or
country. If anything attests the super-natural power which the leaders
of the Convention enjoy, it is to see, in one instant, through one act
of the will and nobody offering any resistance, or complaining of it,
the nation from Perpignan to Lille, deprived of every means of defense
against oppression, with a facility still more unprecedented than
that which attended the universal arming of the nation in 1789."--"A
Residence in Fra