Honest citizens, surrendered to the most atrocious calumny, are destroyed without an opportunity of defending themselves.

It is a veritable Inquisition.

It is the center of seditious publications, a school of cabals and intrigue.

If the citizens have to blush at the selection of unworthy candidates, they are all due to this class of associations...
Composed of the excited and the incendiary, of those who aim to rule the State," the club everywhere tends "to a mastery of the popular opinion, to thwarting the municipalities, to an intrusion of itself between these and the people," to an usurpation of legal forms and to become a "colossus of despotism." Vain complaints! The National Assembly, ever in alarm on its own account, shields the popular club and accords it its favor or indulgence.

A journal of the party had recommended "the people to form themselves into small platoons." These platoons, one by one, are growing.