" No complaint is made; on the contrary, he is rather
beloved. - But, in tumults of this sort, a hundred madmen and
fifty rogues prescribe the law to the timid and the indifferent.
These outlaws declared that "they were acting under orders; they
compelled the mayor and prosecuting attorney to take part in their
robberies; they likewise took the precaution to force a few honest
citizens, by using the severest threats, to march along with them."
These people come the next day to apologize to the pillaged
proprietor, while the municipal officers draw up a statement of the
violence practiced against them. The violence nevertheless, is
accomplished, and, as it will go unpunished, it is soon to be
repeated.
A beginning and an end are already made in the two neighboring
departments. There, especially in the south, nothing is more
instructive than to see how an outbreak stimulated by enthusiasm for
the public good immediately degenerates under the impulse of private
interest, and ends in crime.
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