[31] Campardon, II., 189, 190, 193, 197. (Depositions of Beaulieu,
Duclos, Tirard, Ducray, etc.)
[32] Berryat Saint-Prix, 395. (Letter of Representative Moyse Bayle,)
- Ibid., 216. (Words of Representative Lecarpentier at Saint-Malo.)
"Why such delays? Of what use are these eternal examinations? What
need is there of going so deep into this matter? The name, profession
and the upshot, and the trial is over." - He publicly stated to the
informers: You don't know what facts you require to denounce the
Moderates? Well, a gesture, one single gesture, suffices."
[33] Letter of Payan to Roman Formosa, judge at Orange: "In the
commissions charged with punishing the conspirators, no formalities
should exist; the conscience of the judge is there as a substitute for
these. . . The commissions must serve as political courts; they
must remember that all the men who have not been on the side of the
Revolution are against it, since they have done nothing for the
country. . . I say to all judges, in the name of the country, do
not risk saving a guilty man." - Robespierre made the same declaration
in the Jacobin Club. Frimaire 19, year II.: "We judge, in politics,
with the suspicions of an enlightened patriotism.
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