Neither could it repress the urban minorities with agents elected by the same partial and corrupt urban minorities.

Hands are necessary, and hands as firm as tenacious, to seize conscripts by the collar, to rummage the pockets of taxpayers, and the State did not have such hands.

They were required right away, if only to prepare and provide for urgent needs.

If the western departments had to be subdued and tranquilized, relief furnished to Massena besieged in Genoa, Melas prevented from invading Provence, Moreau's army transported over the Rhine, the first thing was to restore to the central government the appointment of local authorities.
V.Reasons for centralization.
Reasons for placing the executive central power in one hand .-- Sieyes' chimerical combinations .-- Bonaparte's objections.
On this second point, the evidence was scarcely less .-- And clearly, the moment the local powers owed their appointment to the central powers, it is plain that the central executive power, on which they depend, should be unique.

For, this great team of functionaries, driven from aloft, could not have aloft several distinct drivers; being several and distinct, the drivers would each pull his own way, while the horses, pulling in opposite directions, would do nothing but prance.