" This Girard, who was very liberal early in
the revolution, was president of his section in 1789, but, after the
10th of August, he had kept quiet. The committee of the section of
the "Amis de la Patrie," "considering that citizen Girard . . . .
came forward only at the time when the court and Lafayette prevailed
against the sans-culottes;" that, "since equality was established by
the Revolution he has deprived his fellow citizens of his knowledge,
which, in a revolution, is criminal, unanimously agree that the said
citizen is "suspect" and order "him to be sent to the Luxembourg."
[18] Ludovic Sciout, "Histoire de la Constitution civile du clerg?,"
IV., 131, 135. (Orders issued by Dartigoyte and de Pinet). -
"Recueil de pieces authentiques serrant ? l'histoire de la r?volution
? Strasbourg." Vol. I. p. 230. (Speech by Schneider at Barr, for
marrying the patriot Funck.) Schneider, it appears, did still better
on his own account. (Ibid., 317).
[19] Buchez et Roux, XXIX., 160. (Report of Saint-Just, October 20,
1793.) "You have to punish not only traitors, but even the
indifferent; you must punish all in the Republic who are passive and
do nothing for it.
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