CHAPTER I.JACOBIN GOVERNMENT.
I.The despotic creed and instincts of the Jacobin.
Weakness of former governments .-- Energy of the new government .-- The despotic creed and instincts of the Jacobin.
So far, the weakness of the legal government is extreme.

During four years, whatever its kind, it has constantly and everywhere been disobeyed.

For four years it never dared enforce obedience.

Recruited among the cultivated and refined class, the rulers of the country have brought with them into power the prejudices and sensibilities of the epoch.

Under the influence of the prevailing dogma they have submitted to the will of the multitude and, with too much faith in the rights of Man, they have had too little in the authority of the magistrate.
Moreover, through humanity, they have abhorred bloodshed and, unwilling to repress, they have allowed themselves to be repressed.