Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1842-07-19

many world-renowned heads, or marshalled so
much Of life the way to dusty DEATH In the
times when the gullones held the French popu-
lation in check from thirty to forty heads have
been known daily to fall beneath his axe4-it is
not to be wondered at, therefore, that he should
have acquired an unerrng skill in his bloody act
Let take hasty peep into his day book OTTER
rors, and let pass in review the bloody ghosts
which rise out of the catastrophe of that time, 10
remind us.of the horrors ofthe past
First meets our eye the shade of the oath JAM
1871. 1t bears broken crown, andswhat is sad
der still. a broken heart The crowned shade of
Louis XVI, King by the graceof God who stalks
a warning example through the ranks of Gods
amounted, and calls to them Be Just and firm
| Next rise the pale names of the 10th October,
| 1898. The pallid featares marked by sorrow,
deep indeed but which, still, has net been able to
extinguish the brightness of their beauty On
the snow-white neck rests the blood drops of the
guillotine The lovely head, which, once adorn-
led with diamond. crown, nowb bears one ofihornsS
! is that Of Marie Antonieue daaghteB Of Mario
Therese sister ofthc emperor Joseph, andthe con.
sort of the unhappy Louis.
Now fits across the scene a shade whose aspec.
fills us with disgust The bald head with its
load of sin, fell on the 9th of November, 1893
1t is Philip d'Orleans, Philip Egalite the aimer
at his brothers crown Two years before, as lou.
is lost his crown upon the scaffold, Philip had
from his cabriolet gazcd through his opera glass
upon the execution of his royal brother, as an
opera-dileante would witness the pas-seul of a
Fanny Elssler. His shade may serve also as a
warning beacon through centuries TO come, re-
mindng us of the fowler caught in his own snare.
Next rises from the darkness of the grave tho
giantshade of the 18th April, 1888. His power
full frame and fierce aspect that in death still
startled all around, point out the Jupiter Fulmi-
mans of the revolutionary Olympus, the herculean
Danton, whose voice has been compared the thun-
ders roar, and his oratory to the scorching light
ning's fash Man of terror, who brought thee
to the aXe2
Next follows the shade of the 2Sth July 1894,
that OF MAMMALIAN Robespierre; and close upon
his heels those of his brothers, Augustine, St just
Couthon Lebos Henriot and seventeen others of
their associates. The ninth Thermidor, the holi-
q day eve Of the French revolution was a hard day
, for our headsman, AS he had once shown to
them the fair head of their king, so did he on this
day exhibit to the exulting popuace the distorted
features of the Dictator and as they shouted their
o appreciation, each one thought to himself, Now
can we sleep in peace without fear of being ava
: lened by the hangman.' But on that night, when
: exhausted Paris gave itself up to sweet repose,
could Samson, who had annihilated the head ofthe
reign ofterror close no eye, for Robespierre and
the whole tram OF revolutionary victims gathered
I in bloody circle around his BED, and chased the
Z. sleep fom his eye lids Then did he fold his
tarnis AID pfayz-i Fethor in heaven forgive me
q was but the instrument From that day he rested
from his labors he wiped offthe blood from his
!: axe, and with sigh laid his hands in his lap
i! After lapse of forty-two years, during which
d he had successfully seen rise and pass away the
e Directory, the Trumvirate, the Consulate, the
j. Emperor Napolean, Louis XVIII, and Charles
IS X, he was again called by Louis Philippe to the
e schi and his confedcrates, and shortly after on
e young Alibaud He brushed the rust from his
d guilotine, and carried into effect with the same
e mpartalitv as heretofore the DEGREES of the law
e Louis XVIs head was the first, and Alibaud's
q the last that fell beneath his hands
3, The Nemesis of France, Henry Samson, now
a, sleeps TRANQUILITY in the churchyard