Privileged in reverse, they must be
treated the same as vagabonds were treated under their reign,
* stopped by the police and sent off with their families into the
interior,
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* crowded into prisons,
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* executed in a mass, or, at least,
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* expelled from Paris, the seaports and fortified towns, put on the
limits,
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* compelled to present themselves daily at the municipality,
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* deprived of their political rights,
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* excluded from public offices, "popular clubs, committees of
supervision and from communal and section assemblages."[41]
*
Even this is indulgence; branded with infamy, we ought to class them
with galley-slaves, and set them to work on the public highways.[42]
"Justice condemns the people's enemies and the partisans of tyranny
to eternal slavery."[43]
But that is not enough, because, apart from the aristocracy of rank,
there are other aristocracies which the Constituent Assembly has left
untouched,[44] especially the aristocracy of wealth. Of all the
sovereignties, that of the rich man over the poor one is the most
burdensome. In effect, not only, in contempt of equality, does he
consume more than his share of the common products of labor, and
without producing anything himself, but again, in contempt of liberty,
he may fix wages as he pleases, and, in contempt of humanity, he
always fixes them at the lowest point.
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