Willot to the Minister, Aries, Pluvi?se
12, year V., with supporting documents, and especially a letter of the
director of the jury, on the violence committed by, and the reign of,
the Jacobins in Aries.) Their party "is composed of the vilest
artisans and nearly all the sailors." The municipality recruited
amongst former terrorists, "has enforced for a year back the agrarian
law, devastation of the forests, pillage of the wheat-crops, by bands
of armed men under pretext of the right of gleaning, the robbery of
animals at the plough as well as of the flocks," etc.
[139] Ibid., F.7, 7171. "These commissioners (of the quarter) notify
the exclusives, and even swindlers, when warrants are out against
them. . . . The same measures carried out in the primary
assemblies on the 1st of Thermidor last, in the selection of municipal
officers, have been successfully revived in the organization of the
National Guard - threats, insults, shouting, assaults, compulsory
ejection from meetings then governed by the amnestied, finally, the
appointment of the latter to the principal offices. In effect, all,
beginning with the places of battalion leaders and reaching to those
of corporals, are exclusively filled by their partisans.
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