It afterwards removed to New York.

It again removed from New York to Philadelphia, and, after experiencing in every one of these places the great inconvenience of a government within a government, it formed the project of building a town not within the limits of any municipal jurisdiction for the future residence of Congress.

In every one of the places where Congress resided, the municipal authority privately or publicly opposed itself to the authority of Congress, and the people of each of those places expected more attention from Congress than their equal share with the other States amounted to.

The same thing now takes place in France, but in a greater excess." Danton knew all this, and he is sufficiently clear-headed to comprehend the danger; but the furrow is laid out, traced, and by himself.
Since the 10th of August Paris holds France down while a handful of revolutionaries tyrannize Paris.[3402] I .-- Jacobin advantages.
Their sway in the section assemblies .-- Maintenance, re-election and completion of the Commune .-- Its new chiefs, Chaumette, Hebert and Pache .-- The National Guard recast.
-- Jacobins elected officers and sub-officers .-- The paid band of roughs .-- Public and secret funds of the party.
Owing to the composition and the holding of the section assemblies, the original source of power has remained Jacobin, and has become of a darker and darker hue; accordingly, the electoral processes which, under the legislative body, had fashioned the usurping Commune of the 10th of August, are perpetuated and aggravated under the Convention.[3403] "In nearly all the sections[3404] it is the sans-culottes who occupy the chair, arrange things inside the chamber, place the sentinels and provide the censors and auditors.

Five or six spies, familiar with the section, and paid forty sous a day, remain during the session, and ready to undertake any enterprise.