351.] [Footnote 3302: "The Revolution," II., pp.298-304, and p.351.

Should the foregoing testimony be deemed insufficient, the following, by those foreigners who had good opportunities for judging, may be added: (Gouverneur Morris, letter of December 3, 1794.) "The French are plunged into an abyss of poverty and slavery, a slavery all the more degrading because the men who have plunged them into it merit the utmost contempt."-- Meissner, "Voyage a Paris," (at the end of 1795,) p.

160.
"The (revolutionary) army and the revolutionary committees were really associations organized by crime for committing every species of injustice, murder, rapine, and brigandage with impunity.

The government had deprived all men of any talent or integrity of their places and given these to its creatures, that is to say, to the dregs of humanity."-- Baron Brinckmann, Charge d'Affaires from Sweden.

(Letter of July 11, 1799.) "I do not believe that the different classes of society in France are more corrupt than elsewhere; but I trust that no people may ever be ruled by as imbecile and cruel scoundrels as those that have ruled France since the advent of its new state of freedom...