Of these last two parties the Jacobin was not the most hostile to the king.

The aristocracy and the clergy destroyed, that party had no repugnance to the throne; it possessed in a high degree the instinct of the unity of power; it was not the Jacobins who first demanded war, and who first uttered the word republic, but it was the first who uttered and often repeated the word _dictatorship_.

The word _republic_ appertained to Brissot and the Girondists.

If the Girondists, on their coming in to the Assembly, had united with the constitutional party in order to save the constitution by moderate measures, and the Revolution by not urging it into war, they would have saved their party and controlled the throne.

The honesty in which their leader was deficient was also wanting in their conduct--they were all intrigue.