On the 10th of August, Suleau, a conservative journalist, is massacred in the street .-- This shows how the party regards the freedom of the press.
Other liberties may be judged of by its encroachments on this domain.
Law, in its eyes, is null when it proves an obstacle, and when it affords protection to adversaries; consequently there is no excess which it does not sanction for itself; and no right which it does not refuse to others.
There is no escape from the tyranny of the clubs.

"That of Marseilles has forced the city officials to resign;[1228] it has summoned the municipal body to appear before it; it has ignored the authority of the department, and has insulted the administrators of the law.

Members of the Orleans club have kept the national Supreme Court under supervision, and taken part in its proceedings.

Those of the Caen club have insulted the magistrates, and seized and burnt the records of the proceedings commenced against the destroyers of the statue of Louis XIV.

At Alby they have forcibly abstracted from the record-office the papers relating to an assassin's trial, and burnt them." The club at Coutance gives the deputies of its district to understand that "no reflections must be cast on the laws of the people." That of Lyons stops an artillery train, under the pretext that the ministry in office does not enjoy the nation's confidence .-- Thus does the club everywhere govern, or prepare to govern.