Remember, brave sans-
culottes, that, with the patriot Ingrand, you can do everything, get
anything, cancel whatever you please, imprison, bring to trial, deport
and guillotine every-body and regenerate society. Don't try to play
with him; everybody is afraid of him, he overcomes all resistance and
restores at once the most complete order! " - The representative
arrives at the center of the department by post, and presents his
credentials. All the authorities at once bow to the ground. In the
evening, in his saber and plume, he harangues the popular club,
blowing into a flame the smoldering embers of Jacobinism. Then,
according to his personal acquaintances, if he has any in the place,
or according to the votes of the Committee of General Security, if he
is a new-comer, he selects five or six of the "warmest sans-culottes"
there, and, forming them into a Revolutionary Committee, installs them
permanently at his side, sometimes in the same building, in a room
next to his own, where, on lists or with verbal communications
furnished to him, he works with a will and without stopping.[81]
First comes a purification of all the local authorities. They must
always remember that "there can be no exaggeration in behalf of the
people; he who is not imbued with this principle, who has not put it
in practice, cannot remain on an advanced post;"[82] consequently, at
the popular club, in the department, in the district, in the
municipality, all doubtful men are excluded, discharged, or
incarcerated; if a few weak ones are retained provisionally, or by
favor, they are berated and taught their duty very summarily:
"They will strive, by a more energetic and assiduous patriotism, to
atone for the evil committed by them in not doing all the good they
could do.
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