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It is much worse after the July Federation. Entertained, flattered,
and indoctrinated at the clubs, their delegates, inferior officers
and privates, return to the regiment Jacobins; and henceforth
correspond with the Jacobins of Paris, "receiving their instructions
and reporting to them,"[40] - Three weeks later, the Minister of
War gives notice to the National Assembly that there is no limit to
the license in the army. "Couriers, the bearers of fresh
complaints, are arriving constantly." In one place "a statement of
the fund is demanded, and it is proposed to divide it." Elsewhere, a
garrison, with drums beating, leaves the town, deposes its officers,
and comes back sword in hand. Each regiment is governed by a
committee of soldiers. "It is in this committee that the detention
of the lieutenant-colonel of Poitou has been twice arranged; here it
is that 'Royal-Champagne' conceived the insurrection" by which it
refused to recognize a sub-lieutenant sent to it. "Every day the
minister's cabinet is filled with soldiers who are sent as
representatives to him, and who proudly come and intimate to him the
will of their constituents.
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