"They announce openly[3205] that laws no longer exist; that since the people are sovereign, every one is master; that each fraction of the nation can take such measures as suit it, in the name of the country's safety; that they have the right to tax corn, to seize it in the laborer's fields, to cut off the heads of the farmers who refuse to bring their grain to market." At Lisieux, agrarian law is preached by Fufour and Momoro.

At Douai, other preachers from Paris say to the popular club, "Prepare scaffolds; let the walls of the city bristle with gallows, and hang upon them every man who does not accept our opinions."-- Nothing is more logical, more in conformity with their principles.

The journals, deducing their consequences, explain to the people the use they ought to make of their reconquered sovereignty.[3206] "Under the present circumstances, community of property is the law; everything belongs to everybody." Besides, "an equalizing of fortunes must be brought about, a leveling, which shall abolish the vicious principle of the domination of the rich over the poor." This reform is all the more pressing because "the people, the real sovereign people, have nearly as many enemies as there are proprietors, large merchants, financiers, and wealthy men.

In a time of revolution, we must regard all men who have more than enough as the enemies, secret or avowed, of popular government." Therefore, "let the people of each commune, before they quit their homes" for the army, "put all those who are suspected of not loving liberty in a secure place, and under the safe-keeping of the law; let them be kept shut up until war is over; let them be guarded with pikes," and let each one of their guardians receive thirty sous per day.
* As for the partisans of the fallen government, the members of the Paris directory, "with Roederer and Blondel at their head," * as for the general officers, "with Lafayette and d'Affry at their head," * as for "the critical deputies of the Constituent Assembly, with Barnave and Lameth at their head," * as for the Feuillant deputies of the Legislative Assembly, "with Ramond and Jaucourt at their head,"[3207] * as for "all those who consented to soil their hands with the profits of the civil list," * as for "the 40,000 hired assassins who were gathered at the palace on the night of August 9-10, they are all (say the Jacobins) furious monsters, who ought to be strangled to the last one.

People! you have risen to your feet; stand firm until not one of these conspirators remains alive.