Such is the real constitution which the Jacobins substitute for the
constitution they have prepared for show. In the arsenal of the
monarchy which they destroyed they took the most despotic institutions
- centralization, Royal Council, lieutenants of police, special
tribunals, intendants and sub-delegates; they disinterred the antique
Roman law of l?se-majesty, refurbished old blades which civilization
had dulled, aiming them at every throat and now wielded at random
against liberties, property and lives. It is called the
"revolutionary government;" according to official statements it is to
last until peace is secured; in the minds of genuine Jacobins it must
continue until all the French have been regenerated in accordance with
the formula.
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Notes:
[1] Titus Flavious Clemens, (Greek writer born in Athens around 150
and dead in Cappadoce in 250) He lived in Alexandria. (SR).
[2] The words of Marat.
[3] After the Constitution is completed, said Legendre, in the Jacobin
club, we will make the federalists dance.
[4] Archives Nationales, F.I.C.. 56, (Circular of Gohier, Minister of
Justice, to the French people, July 6, 1793).
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