Their hopes were not in any amelioration of present ill, but in its progress towards worse.
The very excess of disorder would punish disorder itself.

The king was at the Tuileries, but royalty was not there--it was at Coblentz, it was on all the thrones of Europe.

Monarchies were all in connection; they knew very well how to restore the French monarchy without the fellowship of those who had overturned it." Thus reasoned the members of the right.

Feelings and resentments closed their ears to the counsels of moderation and wisdom, and the monarchy was not less systematically pushed towards its catastrophe by the hand of its friends than that of its enemies.

The plan was abortive.
Whilst the captive king kept up a twofold understanding with his emigrant brothers to learn the strength and inclination of foreign powers, and with Barnave to attempt the conquest of the Assembly, the Assembly itself lost its power; and the spirit of the Revolution, quitting the place in which it had no longer any hopes, went to excite the clubs and municipalities, and bestow its energies on the elections.
The Assembly had committed the fault of declaring its members not re-eligible for the new legislature.