[Footnote 3245: Reports by Billaud on the organization of the revolutionary government, November 18, 1793 and on the theory of democratic government, April 20, 1794.--Reports by Robespierre on the political situation of the Republic, November 17, 1793; and on the principles of revolutionary government, December 5, 1793.--Information on the genius of revolutionary laws, signed principally by Robespierre and Billaud, November 29, 1793.--Reports by Robespierre on the principles of political morality which ought to govern the Convention, February 5, 1794; and on the relationship between religious and moral ideas and republican principles, May 7, 1794.] [Footnote 3246: Billaud no longer goes on mission after he becomes one of the Committee of Public Safety. Robespierre never went. Barère, who is of daily service, is likewise retained at Paris.--All the others serve on the missions and several repeatedly, and for a long time.] [Footnote 3247: Moniteur, XXIV., 60. The words of Carnot, session of Germinal 2, year III.--Ibid., XXII., 138, words of Collot, session of Vendémiaire 12, year III. "Billaud and myself have sent into the departments three hundred thousand written documents, and have made at least ten thousand minutes (of meetings) with our own hand."] [Footnote 3248: Dussault "Fragment pour servir à l'histoire de la Convention."] [Footnote 3249: Thibaudeau, I., 49.] [Footnote 3250: Arnault, "Souvenirs d'un Sexagenaire," II., 78.] [Footnote 3251: "Mémoires d'un Bourgeois de Paris," by Veron, II., 14. (July 7, 1815.)] [Footnote 3252: Cf. Thibaudeau, "Mémoires," I., 46. "It seemed, then, that to escape imprisonment, or the scaffold, there was no other way than to put others in your place."] [Footnote 3253: Carnot, "Mémoires." I., 508.] [Footnote 3254: Carnot, I., 527. (Words of Prieur de la Côte d'Or.)] [Footnote 3255: Carnot, ibid., 527. (The words of Prieur.)] [Footnote 3256: "La Nouvelle Minerve," I., 355, (Notes by Billaud-Varennes, indited at St. Domingo and copied by Dr. Chervin.) "We came to a decision only after being wearied out by the nightly meetings of our Committee."] [Footnote 3257: Decree of September 17, 1793, on "Suspects." Ordinance of the Paris Commune, October 10, 1793, extending it so as to include "those who, having done nothing against the Revolution, do nothing for it."--Cf. "Papers seized in Robespierre's apartments," II., 370, letter of Payan. "Every man who has not been for the Revolution has been against it, for he has done nothing for the country.... In popular commissions, individual humanity, the moderation which assumes the veil of justice, is criminal."] [Footnote 3258: Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 394, and following pages; 414 and following pages, (on the successive members of the two Committees).]