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[138] Buchez et Roux, XXXV., 290. (" Institutions," by Saint-Just.)
"The Revolution is chilled. Principles have lost their vigor.
Nothing remains but red-caps worn by intrigue." - Report by Courtois,
"Pi?ces justificatives" No.20. (Letter of Pays and Rompillon,
president and secretary of the committee of Surveillance of Saint-
Calais, to Robespierre, Niv?se 15, year II.) "The Mountain here is
composed of only a dozen or fifteen men on whom you can rely as on
yourself; the rest are either deceived, seduced, corrupted or enticed
away. Public opinion is debauched by the gold and intrigues of honest
folks."
[139] Report by Courtois, N. 43. - Cf. Hamel, III., 43, 71. - (The
following important document is on file in the Archives Nationales, F
7, 4446, and consists of two notes written by Robespierre in June and
July, 1793): "Who are our enemies? The vicious and the rich. . . .
How may the civil war be stopped? Punish traitors and conspirators,
especially guilty deputies and administrators . . . . make
terrible examples . . . . proscribe perfidious writers and anti-
revolutionaries . . . . Internal danger comes from the bourgeois;
to overcome the bourgeois, rally the people.
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