The things we do!

They are accordingly dismissed and others put in their
place, while the ship heels over farther yet and begins to leak in
every joint. Enough: it is the fault of the captain and the old
staff of officers, They are not well-disposed; for a beautiful
system of navigation like this ought to work well; and if it fails
to do so, it is because some one interferes with it. It is
positively certain that some of those people belonging to the former
r?gime must be traitors, who would rather have the ship go down than
submit; they are public enemies and monsters. They must be seized,
disarmed, put under surveillance, and punished. - Such is the
reasoning of the Assembly. Evidently, to reassure it, a message
from the Minister of the Interior chosen by the Assembly, to the
lieutenant of police whom he had appointed, to come to his office
every morning, would be all that was necessary. But it is deprived
of this simple resource by its own act, and has no other expedient
than to appoint a committee of investigation to discover crimes of
"treason against the nation.


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