all offences within its jurisdiction is
death. Those are held to be enemies of the people who shall have misled
the people, or the representatives of the people, into measures opposed
to the interests of liberty; those who shall have sought to create
discouragement by favoring the undertakings of tyrants leagued against
the Republic; those who shall have spread false reports to divide or
disturb the people; those who shall have sought to misdirect opinion
and impede popular instruction, produce depravity and corrupt the
public conscience, diminish the energy and purity of revolutionary and
republican principles, or stay their progress Those who, charged with
public functions, abuse them to serve the enemies of the Revolution, vex
patriots, oppress the people, etc."]

[Footnote 31138: Buchez et Roux, XXXV., 290. (" Institutions," by
Saint-Just.) "The Revolution is chilled. Principles have lost their
vigor. Nothing remains but red-caps worn by intrigue."--Report by
Courtois, "Pieces justificatives" No.20. (Letter of Pays and
Rompillon, president and secretary of the committee of Surveillance of
Saint-Calais, to Robespierre, Nivose 15, year II.) "The Mountain here
is composed of only a dozen or fifteen men on whom you can rely as on
yourself; the rest are either deceived, seduced, corrupted or enticed
away. Public opinion is debauched by the gold and intrigues of honest
folks."]

[Footnote 31139: Report by Courtois, N. 43.--Cf. Hamel, III., 43,
71.--(The following important document is on file in the Archives
Nationales, F 7, 4446, and consists of two notes written by Robespierre
in June and July, 1793): "Who are our enemies? The vicious and
the rich.... How may the civil war be stopped? Punish traitors and
conspirators, especially guilty deputies and administrators....
make terrible examples.... proscribe perfidious writers and
anti-revolutionaries.... Internal danger comes from the bourgeois; to
overcome the bourgeois, rally the people. The present insurrection must
be kept up.... The insurrection should gradually continue to spread
out... The sans-culottes should be paid and remain in the towns. They
ought to be armed, worked up, taught."]

[Footnote 31140: The committee of Public Safety, and Robespierre
especially, knew of and commanded the drownings of Nantes, as well as
the principal massacres by Carrier, Turreau, etc. (De Martel, "Etude sur
Fouche," 257-265.)--Ibid., ("Types revolutionnaires," 41-49.)--Buchez
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