a judge at Cambray, "I swallowed a big
glass

of spirits to give me strength enough to preside."

He leaves his house with no other intention than to finish the job, and,
the sentence once pronounced, to return home, shut himself up, and close
his eyes and ears.

"I had to pronounce judgment according to the jury's declaration--what
could I do?"[3367]

Nothing, but remain blind and deaf: "I drank. I tried to ignore
everything, even the names of the accused."--It is plain enough that,
in the local official body, there are too many agents who are weak, not
zealous, without any push, unreliable, or even secretly hostile; these
must be replaced by others who are energetic and reliable, and the
latter must be taken wherever they can be found.[3368] This reservoir
in each department or district is the Jacobin nursery of the principal
town; from this, they are sent into the bourgs and communes of the
conscription. The central Jacobin nursery for France is in Paris, from
whence they are dispatched to the towns and departments.

V. Jacobins sent to the Provinces.

Importation of a staff of strangers.--Paris Jacobins sent
into the provinces.--Jacobins of enthusiastic towns deported
to moderate ones.--The Jacobins of a district headquarters
spread through the district.--Resistance of public opinion.
--Distribution and small number of really Jacobin agents.

Consequently, swarms of Jacobin locusts spread from Paris out over
the provinces, and from the local country-towns over the surrounding
country.--In this cloud of destructive insects, there are various
figures of different sizes: in the front rank, are the representatives
on mission, who are to take command in the departments; in the second
rank, "the political agents," who, assigned the duty of watching the
neighboring frontier, take upon themselves the additional duty of
leading the popular club of the town they reside in, or of urging on
its administrative body.[3369] Besides that, there issue from the Paris
headquarters in the rue St. Honore, select sans-culottes who, authorized
or delegated by the Committee of Public Safety, proceed to Lyons,
Marseilles, Bordeaux, Tonnerre, Rochefort and elsewhere, to act as
missionaries among the too inert population, or form the committees
of action and the tribunals of extermination that are recruited with
difficulty on the spot.[3370]--Sometimes also, when a town has a bad
record, the popular cl