During the three following days six hundred families emigrate, while the authorities report that everything is going on well, and that order is restored.

"The elections," they say, "are now proceeding in the quietest manner since the ill-intentioned voluntarily keeping away from them, a large number having left the town.

"[2134] A void is created around the ballot-box and this is called the unanimity of voters .-- The effect of such assassinations is great and only a few are required; especially when they go unpunished, which is always the case.

Henceforth all that the Jacobins have to do is to threaten; people no longer resist them for they know that it costs too much to face them down.

They do not care to attend electoral meetings where they meet insult and danger; they acknowledge defeat at the start.