"It seemed, then, that to escape imprisonment, or the scaffold, there was no other way than to put others in your place."] [Footnote 3253: Carnot, "Memoires." I., 508.] [Footnote 3254: Carnot, I., 527.

(Words of Prieur de la Cote d'Or.)] [Footnote 3255: Carnot, ibid., 527.

(The words of Prieur.)] [Footnote 3256: "La Nouvelle Minerve," I., 355, (Notes by Billaud-Varennes, indited at St.Domingo and copied by Dr.Chervin.) "We came to a decision only after being wearied out by the nightly meetings of our Committee."] [Footnote 3257: Decree of September 17, 1793, on "Suspects." Ordinance of the Paris Commune, October 10, 1793, extending it so as to include "those who, having done nothing against the Revolution, do nothing for it."-- Cf.

"Papers seized in Robespierre's apartments," II., 370, letter of Payan.

"Every man who has not been for the Revolution has been against it, for he has done nothing for the country....