Another said, that when there was no offense
committed it was necessary to imagine one. Another is a regular sot
and has never sat in judgment but in a state of intoxication. Others
came to the bench only to fire their volleys." Etc. (Supporting
evidence.) - Observe, moreover, that judges and juries are bound to
kill under penalty of death (Ibid.,30)." Fouquier-Tinville states that
on the 22nd of Prairial he took the same step (to resign) with
Chatelet, Brochet and Lerry, when they met Robespierre, returning to
the National Convention arm-in-arm with Bar?re. Fouquier adds, that
they were treated as aristocrats and anti-revolutionaries, and
threatened with death if they refused to remain on their posts."
Analogous declarations by Pigeot, Ganne, Girard, Dupley, Foucault,
Nollin and Madre. "Sellier adds, that the tribunal having
remonstrated against the law of Prairial 22, he was threatened with
arrest by Dumas. Had we resigned, he says, Dumas would have
guillotined us.
[124] Moniteur, XXIV., 12. (Session of Vent?se 29, year III., speech
by Baileul). "Terror subdued all minds, suppressed all emotions; it
was the force of the government, while such was this government that
the numerous inhabitants of a vast territory seemed to have lost the
qualities which distinguish man from a domestic animal.
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