. . . They have paid .
. . . and still pay agitators to intimidate honest folks by terror,
in order to keep what they have seized, awaiting an opportunity to get
more. . . . When the elections were over they sent daring men,
undoubtedly paid, to insult people as they passed, calling them
royalist chouans." (He mentions the dispatch of supporting
affidavits.) - Mercier, "Le Nouveau Paris," II., 315. "Peaceable
people in Paris refuse to go to the polls," so as to "avoid being
struck and knocked down." - Sauzay, VIII., 9. At Besan?on, Nov. 6,
1795, out of 5,309 registered voters, only 1,324 vote and the elected
are terrorists. - Archives Nationales, F.7, 7090. (Documents on the
Jacobin insurrection of Niv?se 4 and 5, year IV., at Arles): "The
exclusives, or amnestied, regarded the Constitution only as a means of
arriving at a new state of anarchy by getting possession of all the
offices. . . . Shouts and cries of Vive Marat! and Robespierre to
the Pantheon! were often repeated. -- The principal band was composed
of genuine Terrorists, of the men who under Robespierre's reign bore
the guillotine about in triumph, imitating its cruel performances on
every corner with a manikin expressly made for the occasion.
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