Instead of doing this, however, the resolution was declared urgent, and, whether we would or not, discussion had to take place forthwith."[2240]--"There were other tactics equally perfidious, which Thuriot, especially, made use of.

This great rascal got up and proposed, not the draft of a law, but what he called a principle; for instance, a decree should be passed confiscating the property of the emigres,..

or that unsworn priests should be subject to special surveillance.[2241]...

In reply, he was told that his principle was the core of a law, the very law itself; so let it be debated by referring it to a committee to make a report on it .-- Not at all--the matter is urgent; a committee might fix the articles as it pleases; they are worthless if the principle is not common sense." Through this expeditious method discussion is stifled.

The Jacobins purposely prevent the Assembly from giving the matter any consideration.