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[134] Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 417. (Speech of Thermidor 8, year II.)
[135] Ibid., XXXII., 361, (Speech May 7, '794,) and 359. "Immorality
is the basis of despotism, as virtue is the essence of the Republic."
[136] Ibid., 371.
[137] Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 195. (Report of Couthon and decree in
conformity therewith, Prairial 22, year II.) "The revolutionary
tribunal is organised for the punishment of the people's enemies . .
. . The penalty for all offences within its jurisdiction is death.
Those are held to be enemies of the people who shall have misled the
people, or the representatives of the people, into measures opposed to
the interests of liberty; those who shall have sought to create
discouragement by favoring the undertakings of tyrants leagued against
the Republic; those who shall have spread false reports to divide or
disturb the people; those who shall have sought to misdirect opinion
and impede popular instruction, produce depravity and corrupt the
public conscience, diminish the energy and purity of revolutionary and
republican principles, or stay their progress Those who, charged
with public functions, abuse them to serve the enemies of the
Revolution, vex patriots, oppress the people, etc.
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