pect," says the register of the jail, "because
he is comfortably off."[4195] On this account nowhere are there so many
"suspects" as among the people; the shop, the farm and the work-room
harbor more aristocrats than the rectory and the chateau. In effect,
according to the Jacobins,[4196] "nearly all farmers are aristocrats;"
"the merchants are all essentially anti-revolutionary,"[4197] and
especially all dealers in articles of prime necessity, wine-merchants,
bakers and butchers; the latter especially are open "conspirators,"
enemies "of the interior," and "whose aristocracy is insupportable."
Such, already, among the lower class of people, are the many delinquents
who are punished.

But there are still more of them to punish, for, besides the crime
of not being destitute, of possessing some property, of withholding
articles necessary for existence, there is the crime of aristocracy,
necessarily so called, namely, repugnance to, lack of zeal, or even
indifference for the established regime, regret for the old one,
relationship or intercourse with a condemned or imprisoned emigre of
the upper class, services rendered to some outlaw, the resort to some
priest; now, numbers of poor farmers, mechanics, domestics and women
servants, have committed this crime;[4198] and in many provinces and
in many of the large cities nearly the whole of the laboring population
commits it and persists in it; such is the case, according to Jacobin
reports, in Alsace, Franche-Comte, Provence, Vaucluse, Anjou, Poitou,
Vendee, Brittany, Picardie and Flanders, and in Marseilles, Bordeaux
and Lyons. In Lyons alone, writes Collot d'Herbois, "there are sixty
thousand persons who never will become republicans. They should be dealt
with, that is made redundant, and prudently distributed all over the
surface of the Republic."[4199]--Finally, add to the persons of the
lower class, prosecuted on public grounds, those who are prosecuted on
private grounds. Among peasants in the same village, workmen of the
same trade and shopkeepers in the same quarter, there is always envy,
enmities and spites; those who are Jacobins become local pashas and are
able to gratify local jealousies with impunity, something they never
fail to do.[41100]

Hence, on the lists of the guillotined, the incarcerated and of emigres,
the men and women of inferior condition are in much greater number, far
greater than their companions of the superior and middle classes all put
toget