the mortal enemy of the people, the most to be dreaded by
them, is the Government."--"Any minister who remains more than 2 days
in office, once the ministry is able to plot against the country is
'suspect.' "[3132]--Bestir yourselves, then, ye unfortunates in town and
country, workmen without work, street stragglers without fuel or shelter
sleeping under bridges, prowlers along the highways, beggars,
tattered vagabonds, cripples and tramps, and seize your faithless
representatives!--On July 14th and October 5th and 6th, "the people
had the right not only to execute some of the conspirators in military
fashion, but to immolate them all, to put to the sword the entire body
of royal satellites leagued together for our destruction, the whole herd
of traitors to the country, of every condition and degree."[3133]
Never go to the Assembly, "without filling your pockets with stones and
throwing them at the impudent scoundrels who preach monarchical maxims;"
"I recommend to you no other precaution but that of telling their
neighbors to look out."[3134]--"We do not demand the resignation of the
ministers-we demand their heads. We demand the heads of all the cabinet
officials in the Assembly, your mayor's, your general's, the heads of
most of the staff-officers, of most of the municipal council, of the
principal agents of the executive power in the kingdom. "--Of what use
are half-way measures, like the sack of the hotel de Castries?[3135]

"Avenge yourselves wisely! Death! Death! is the sole penalty for
traitors raging to destroy you It is the only one that strikes terror
into them. Follow the example of your implacable enemies! Keep always
armed, so that they may not escape through the delays of the law! Stab
them on the spot or blow their brains out!"--"Twenty-four millions of
men shout in unison: If the black, gangrened, archi-gangrened officials
dare pass a bill reducing and reorganizing the army, citizens, then you
build eight hundred scaffolds in the Tuileries garden and hang on them
every traitor to his country--that infamous Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau,
at the head of them--and, at the same time, erect in the middle of
the fountain basin a big pile of logs to roast the ministers and their
tools!"[3136]--Could "the Friend of the People" rally around him two
thousand men determined "to save the country, he would go and tear the
heart out of that infernal Mottie in the very midst of his battalions
of slaves; he would go and b