" Any refuge for them is good against the
reprobation of the public, which is already rising and submerging them
under its tide.
II. Re-election of the Two-thirds.
Decrees for the re-election of the Two-thirds. - Small number of
Voters. - Maneuvers for preventing electors from voting on the
decrees. - Frauds in the returns of votes. - Maintenance of the
decrees by force. - Recruiting of the Roughs. - The military
employed. - The 13th of Vend?maire.
There is no other refuge for them except in supreme power, and no
other means for maintaining this but in the excesses of despotism,
dishonesty, mendacity and violence. In the Constitution they
manufacture, they desire to remain the sovereigns of France and they
decree[12] at once that, willingly or not, France must select two-
thirds of its new representatives from amongst them, and, that she may
make a good selection, it is prudent to impose the selection upon her.
There is a show, indeed, of consulting her in the special decrees
which deprive her of two-thirds of her elective rights but, as in 1792
and in 1793, it is so contrived that she consents, or seems to
consent, to this arrangement.[13] - In the first place, they relied on
the majority of electors abstaining from a response.
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