In popular commissions, individual humanity, the moderation which assumes the veil of justice, is criminal."] [Footnote 3258: Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 394, and following pages; 414 and following pages, (on the successive members of the two Committees).] [Footnote 3259: Wallon, "Histoire du Tribunal Revolutionaire," III., 129-131.

Herault de Sechelles, allied with Danton, and accused of being indulgent, had just given guarantees, however, and applied the revolutionary regime in Alsace with a severity worthy of Billaud.
(Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.V., 141.) "Instructions for civil commissioners by Herault, representative of the people," (Colmar, Frimaire 2, year II.,) with suggestions as to the categories of persons that are to be "sought for, arrested and immediately put in jail," probably embracing nineteen-twentieths of the inhabitants.] [Footnote 3260: Dauban, "Paris" en 1794, 285, and following pages.
(Police Reports, Germinal, year II.) Arrest of Hebert and associates "Nothing was talked about the whole morning but the atrocious crimes of the conspirators.

They were regarded as a thousand times more criminal than Capet and his wife.

They ought to be punished a thousand times over....

The popular hatred of Hebert is at its height...