PRECARIOUS SITUATION OF A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LOCKED UP WITHIN A LOCALJURISDICTION.
"Citizen Danton，" wrote the deputy Thomas Paine，[1] "the danger， every day increasing， is of a rupture between Paris and departments.
The departments did not send their deputies to Paris to be insulted， and every insult shown to them is an insult to the department that elected them. I see but one effective plan to prevent this rupture taking place， and that is to fix the residence of the Convention and of the future assemblies at a distance from Paris. . . . I saw， during the American Revolution， the exceeding inconvenience that arose from having the government of Congress within the limits of any municipal jurisdiction. Congress first resided in Philadelphia， and， after a residence of four years， it found it necessary to leave it. It then adjourned to the State of Jersey. It afterwards removed to New York.
It again removed from New York to Philadelphia， and， after experiencing in every one of these places the great inconvenience of a government within a government， it formed the project of building a town not within the limits of any municipal jurisdiction for the future residence of Congress. In every one of the places where Congress resided， the municipal authority privately or publicly opposed itself to the authority of Congress， and the people of each of those places expected more attention from Congress than their equal share with the other States amounted to. The same thing now takes place in France， but in a greater excess."Danton knew all this， and he is sufficiently clear-headed to comprehend the danger； but the furrow is laid out， traced， and by himself. Since the 10th of August Paris holds France down while a handful of revolutionaries tyrannize Paris.[2]
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Jacobin advantages. -- Their sway in the section assemblies. --Maintenance， re-election and completion of the Commune.-- Its new chiefs， Chaumette， Hébert and Pache. -- The National Guard recast. --Jacobins elected officers and sub-officers.-- The paid band of roughs.
-- Public and secret funds of the party.