or a Napoleon.
II.

Jacobin Dissimulation.
Contrast between his words and his acts .-- How he dissimulates his change of front .-- The Constitution of June, 1793 .-- Its promises of freedom.
In the mean time, he has to harmonize his coming acts with his recent declarations, which, at the first glance, seems a difficult operation: for, in the speeches he has made he has already condemned the actions he meditates.

Yesterday he exaggerated the rights of the governed, even to a suppression of those of the government; to-morrow he is to exaggerate the rights of the people in power, even to suppressing those who are governed.

The people, as he puts it, is the sole sovereign, and he is going to treat the people as slaves; the government, as he puts it, is a valet, and he is going to endow the government with prerogatives of a sultan.

He has just denounced the slightest exercise of public authority as a crime; he is now going to punish as a crime the slightest resistance to public authority.