14. all the justices of Paris to be re-elected by those within their
jurisdiction,
15. all officers of the gendarmerie subject to re-election by their
soldiers,[26109]
16. thirty sous per diem for the Marseilles troops from the day of their
arrival,
17. a court-martial against the Swiss,
18. a tribunal for the dispatch of justice against the vanquished of
August 10, and a quantity of other decrees of a still more important
bearing:
19. the suspension of the commissioners appointed to enforce the
execution of the law in civil and criminal courts,[26110]
20. the release of all persons accused or condemned for military
insubordination, for press offenses and pillaging of grain,[26111]
21. the partition of communal possessions,[26112]
22. the confiscation and sale of property belonging to émigrés,[26113]
23. the relegation of their fathers, mothers, wives and children into
the interior,
24. the banishment or transportation of unsworn ecclesiastics,[26114]
25. the establishment of easy divorce at two months' notice and on
demand of one of the parties,[26115] in short, every measure is
taken which tend to disturb property, break up the family, persecute
conscience, suspend the law, pervert justice, and rehabilitate crime.
laws are promulgated to deliver:
* the judicial system,
* the full control of the nation,
* the selection of the members of the future omnipotent Assembly,
* in short, the entire government,
to an autocratic, violent minority, which, having risked all to grab the
dictatorship, dares all to keep it.[26116]
VIII.--State of Paris in the Interregnum.
The mass of the population.--Subaltern Jacobins.--The
Jacobin leaders.
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