- Paralysis of
the State. - Internal discords of the Jacobin party. - Coup d'?tat
of Flor?al 22, year VI. - Coup d'?tat of Prairial 30, year VII. -
Impossibility of establishing a viable government. - Plans of Barras
and Si?y?s.
Once again has triumphant Jacobinism shown its anti-social nature, its
capacity for destruction, its impotence to re-construct. - The
nation, vanquished and discouraged, no longer resists, but, if it
submits it is as to a pestilence, while its transportations, its
administrative purifications, its decrees placing towns in a state of
siege, its daily violence, only exasperate the mute antipathy.
"Everything has been done," says an honest Jacobin,[130] "to alienate
the immense majority of citizens from the Revolution and the Republic,
even those who had contributed to the downfall of the monarchy. . .
Instead of seeing the friends of the Revolution increase as we have
advanced on the revolutionary path . . . . we see our ranks
thinning out and the early defenders of liberty deserting our cause."
It is impossible for the Jacobins to rally France and reconcile her to
their ways and dogmas, and on this point their own agents leave no
illusion.
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