These consisted, finally, of a drum-beater and
the musical officer; and the latter, ashamed of himself, often
concealed his scarf in his pocket, on his way to the Temple of Reason.
. . . But these 300 000 brigands had 2 or 300 directors, members of
the National convention, who cannot be called anything but scoundrels,
since the language provides no other epithet so forcible."
BOOK FOURTH. The Governed.
CHAPTER I. The Oppressed.
I. Revolutionary Destruction.
Magnitude of revolutionary destructiveness. - The four ways of
effecting it. - Expulsion from the country through forced emigration
and legal banishment. - Number of those expelled. - Privation of
liberty. - Different sorts of imprisonment. - Number and situation
of those imprisoned. - Murders after being tried, or without trial.
- Number of those guillotined or shot after trial. - Indication of
the number of other lives destroyed. - Necessity and plan for wider
destruction. - Spoliation. - Its extent. - Squandering. - Utter
losses. - Ruin of individuals and the State. - The Notables the most
oppressed.
The object of the Jacobin, first of all, is the destruction of his
adversaries, avowed or presumed, probable or possible.
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