side, at Marseilles five out of thirty-two, whether at Lyons they can
count up only fifteen hundred devoted adherents.[83] Suffrages are
not reckoned, but weighed, for legality is founded, not on numbers,
but on patriotism, the sovereign people being composed wholly of sans-
culottes. So much the worse for towns where the anti-revolutionary
majority is so great; they are only more dangerous; under the
republican demonstrations is concealed the hostility of old parties
and of the "suspect" classes, the Moderates, the Feuillants and
Royalists, merchants, men of the legal profession, property-owners and
muscadins.[84] These towns are nests of reptiles and must be crushed
out.



IX.

Destruction of Rebel Cities. -- Bordeaux. -- Marseilles. -- Lyons.-
- Toulon.

Consequently, obedient or disobedient, they are crushed out. They are
declared traitors to the country, not merely the members of the
departmental committees, but, at Bordeaux, all who have "aided or
abetted the Committee of Public Safety;" at Lyons, all administrators,
functionaries, military or civil officers who "convoked or tolerated
the Rhône-et-Loire congress," and furthermore, "every individual whose
son, clerk, servant, or even day-laborer, may have borne arms or
contributed the means of resistance," that is to say, the entire
National Guard who took up arms, and nearly all the population which
gave its money or voted in the sections.[85] -- By virtue of this
decree, all are "outlaws," or, in other words subject to the