intelligible voice." They are required to shout in unison, to sign the
grandiloquent address in which the leaders testify their gratitude to
the Convention, and give their adhesion to the eminent patriots
delegated by the primary assembly to bear its report to Paris.[21]



IV.

The Delegates reach Paris. -- Precautions taken against them. --
Constraints and Seductions.

The first act of the comedy is over and the second act now begins.--
The faction has convoked the delegates of the primary assemblies to
Paris for a purpose. Like the primary assemblies, they are to serve
as its instruments for governing; they are to form the props of
dictatorship, and the object now is to restrict them to that task
only. -- Indeed, it is not certain that all will lend themselves to
it. For, among the eight thousand commissioners, some, appointed by
refractory assemblies, bring a refusal instead of an adhesion;[22]
others, more numerous, are instructed to present objections and point
out omissions:[23] it is very certain that the envoys of the Girondist
departments will insist on the release or return of their excluded
representatives. And lastly, a good many delegates who have accepted
the Constitution in good faith desire its application as soon as
possible, and that the Convention should fulfill its promise of
abdication, so as to give way to a new Assembly. - As it is important
to suppress at once all these vague desires for independence or
tendencies for opposition a decree of the Convention "authorizes the
Committee of General Security to order the arrest of 'suspect'