Government to destroy Robespierre. The Royd**** w/mld concgnlge the whole national authorit y in the h flnHa nf the rich h o nrff^iffiVj ?t make ; t absolute ™ the and Council. — Th e Girondists would extend th e inchise to the small middlemen ( just as our Engli sh
i did by the Reform Bill), in- order the more effe c- afty fr> fceep down the work ing ci«»s^ The^fine w AnlH govern by theT Church and a stand ing army; the other wouM gove rn by money a. by lying journalism^ and ap armed shopocracy . Priestcraft and bayonets were the materiel of Royalist tyranny ; Mammon and corrupt literature were the weapons of the other. The prevailing characteristics of the Royalists were sloth, monopoly bigotry, hatred of change ; those of the Girondists were restlessness, intrigue, falsehood, arid cowardly ambition. The^hamj jtadical Mountainists d iffer^ fro m both in th is — thatwantmg the riches of the formerj^arty^ jEtnd^ the talents of the Girondists, they were obl iged to i
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enterprize . To this latter party belonged the Septem- Brizers — the chief terrorists of the Convention — and the ferocious pro-consuls and commissioners who shed so much blood in the provinces. Its leaders were Bourdon, Tallien, Fouche, Frerdn, Legendfre; Barras and Re- vere also belonged to it; but previously to Dan ton's death, that demagogue was considered the chief of the party. In the early stages of the Revolution, and, in- deed, till a short period before his death, the necessity of opposing a strong fotfee to the Royalists and Girond- ists, obliged Robespierre to act with these desperadoes, but there was no mutuality or congeniality of feeling be- tween him and them. Robe spierre arid his fri ends dft-
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pqnajifry nf righta-and p^rfry of m»mlrf. The Dantbnfe ts; on the other hand, caredj rethlng about rightfe or mo rals, p j ypnd^ t lipy orm] (j acquire^ riches- and p nww loFt Eem- sejxei. The Revoflntion was in their eyes a game! of hazard, hi which every one had a right t^ seize all he could fbr himself, no matted at what cost or at w&ose expense. Such discordant elements oouW not long coalesce. Pteviefcsiy to the 31st of May, 1793, the
