(Speech of Thermidor 8, year II.)] [Footnote 31135: Ibid., XXXII., 361, (Speech May 7, '794,) and 359.
"Immorality is the basis of despotism, as virtue is the essence of the Republic."] [Footnote 31136: Ibid., 371.] [Footnote 31137: Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 195.

(Report of Couthon and decree in conformity therewith, Prairial 22, year II.) "The revolutionary tribunal is organised for the punishment of the people's enemies..

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The penalty for all offences within its jurisdiction is death.

Those are held to be enemies of the people who shall have misled the people, or the representatives of the people, into measures opposed to the interests of liberty; those who shall have sought to create discouragement by favoring the undertakings of tyrants leagued against the Republic; those who shall have spread false reports to divide or disturb the people; those who shall have sought to misdirect opinion and impede popular instruction, produce depravity and corrupt the public conscience, diminish the energy and purity of revolutionary and republican principles, or stay their progress Those who, charged with public functions, abuse them to serve the enemies of the Revolution, vex patriots, oppress the people, etc."] [Footnote 31138: Buchez et Roux, XXXV., 290.