One year more, thanks to this policy, and France will have all Europe for an enemy and as its only friend, the Regency of Algiers, whose internal system of government is about the same as her own.
IV .-- Secret motives of the leaders.
Their control compromised by peace .-- Discontent of the rich and cultivated class .-- Formation and increase of the party of order .-- The King and this party reconciled.
Behind their carmagnoles[2363] we can detect a design which they will avow later on.
"We were always obstructed by the Constitution," Brissot is to say, "and nothing but war could destroy the Constitution."[2364] Diplomatic wrongs, consequently, of which they make parade, are simply pretexts; if they urge war it is for the purpose of overthrowing the legal order of things which annoys them; their real object is the conquests of power, a second internal revolution, the application of their system and a final state of equality .-- Concealed behind them is the most politic and absolute of theorists, a man "whose great art is the attainment of his ends without showing himself, the preparation of others for far-sighted views of which they have no suspicion, and that of speaking but little in public and acting in secret."[2365] This man is Sieyes, "the leader of everything without seeming to lead anything."[2366] As infatuated as Rousseau with his own speculations, but as unscrupulous and as clear-sighted as Macchiavelli in the selection of practical means, he was, is, and will be, in decisive moments, the consulting counsel of radical democracy.
"His pride tolerates no superiority.

He causes nobility to be abolished because he is not a noble; because he does not possess all he will destroy all.

His fundamental doctrine for the consolidation of the Revolution is, that it is indispensable to change religion and to change the dynasty." Now, had peace been maintained all this was impossible; moreover the ascendance of the party was compromised.

Entire classes that had adhered to the party when it launched insurrection against the privileged, broke loose from it now that insurrection was directed against them; among thoughtful men and among those with property, most were disgusted with anarchy, and likewise disgusted with the abettors of it.

Many administrators, magistrates and functionaries recently elected, loudly complained of their authority being subject to the mob.
Many cultivators, manufacturers and merchants have become silently exasperated at the fruits of their labor and economy being surrendered at discretion to robbers and the indigent.