Fright is the cause of it. . . .
And where does this fear come from? From the general agitation, and
threats, with the bad treatment in many places of the farmers, land-
owners and traffickers in wheat known as bladiers." - Decrees of
Sep.16, 1792, and May 4, 1793.
[25] Buchez et Roux, XIX. (Report by Cambon, Sep.22, 1792.) "The
taxes no longer reach the public treasury, because they are used for
purchasing grain in the departments." Ibid., XIX., 29. (Speech by
Cambon, Oct.12, 1792.) "You can bear witness in your departments to
the sacrifices which well-to-do people have been obliged to make in
helping the poor class. In many of the towns extra taxes have been
laid for the purchase of grain and for a thousand other helpful
measures."
[26] Buchez et Roux, XX., 409. (Letter of Roland, Nov.29, 1792) -
XXI., 199. (Deliberations of the provisional executive council, Sep.
3, 1792.) - Dauban, "La Demagogie en 1793," p. 64. (Diary kept by
Beaulieu.) Ibid., 152.)
[27] Schmidt, I., 110-130. - Decrees against the export of coin or
ingots, Sep. 5 and 15, 1792.-Decree on stocks or bonds payable to
bearer, Aug.14, 1792.
[28] We might today call this sentiment a desire to acquire and
retain.
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