But there are still more of them to punish, for, besides the crime of
not being destitute, of possessing some property, of withholding
articles necessary for existence, there is the crime of aristocracy,
necessarily so called, namely, repugnance to, lack of zeal, or even
indifference for the established r?gime, regret for the old one,
relationship or intercourse with a condemned or imprisoned ?migr? of
the upper class, services rendered to some outlaw, the resort to some
priest; now, numbers of poor farmers, mechanics, domestics and women
servants, have committed this crime;[98] and in many provinces and in
many of the large cities nearly the whole of the laboring population
commits it and persists in it; such is the case, according to Jacobin
reports, in Alsace, Franche-Comt?, Provence, Vaucluse, Anjou, Poitou,
Vend?e, Brittany, Picardie and Flanders, and in Marseilles, Bordeaux
and Lyons. In Lyons alone, writes Collot d'Herbois, "there are sixty
thousand persons who never will become republicans. They should be
dealt with, that is made redundant, and prudently distributed all over
the surface of the Republic."[99] - Finally, add to the persons of the
lower class, prosecuted on public grounds, those who are prosecuted on
private grounds.
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