fearmongering

Taking away men's weapons will be not bring peace. They'll fight with sticks and stones, and tooth and nail. Mapidéré's is a peace supported only by fear, as secure as a nest built on a rotten branch.

Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy__ot that this is the intention of the generality of them. Yet it would not be difficult to lay the finger upon some of their party who may justly be suspected. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits__espotic in his ordinary demeanour__nown to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty__hen such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity__o join in the cry of danger to liberty__o take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion__o flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day__t may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may __ide the storm and direct the whirlwind.

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion.