Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-08-12
PAINE AS = JUDGE On rue


following extract describes his share IN
the trial ofths King ol France.
Charles the FIRST hal trial before
inc oniy peers that can ~ futhless
monarch, ms Que ofeujuI coJutry mcn,
Inc French Convention was a mo- on
small scale. EsLlisu uch sat as Iu-ors
40 try thc Eag.Ish nIuL. The French
Inquest was a S1r, ul ttteS, not ven de-
GucUmSla .t!tbtS, net %. the OJdy ol the
country -ss wrte sUaluouud from
ABROAD, lake PANE, Au1cntI,lS ClOOtz,
and others, auI made c.tizeus Tor the
nonce aud By whole sale naturalization,
lt not cl,IzeuS Dy more force Vi repuOll
can sympdthles.
''On the test vote IN the Convention,
PunG'S yOIce was Tor mercy, aud what
he calls has speech iu favor OF Danish.
inent to tle Uaied States. is preserved
an the printed works. What dismal
scene was ,aat OF the night session of
the 10Th Of January 1872. and what
thoughts must have crowded Ilto the
mind Of Paine as Win she fresh recOilect.
ions OF the past he looked around him!
IL vas On the 81 n Paris, whttier ne had
nrst como some eleven years before To-
invoke SYM athy FIR America. aud where
he had been 50 warmly welcomed. BE |
fore him, curing the days Of the trlnl, I
sat the monarch who generously suppl
eJ the aId America n11 solicited. low
attained alt about 10 be sacrificed
mere vas he brilliant court which La
urcds had inportuuedi where the hlg
which had GJdtei before the inlrencn.
mantS OF YORKTOWN, where Lafayette,
Inc LbmOt;es, CntsieiieuX, RprbI,uheau,
~ Estung, De Grass! All gone TO r
death or punishment; the scene was =
changed; there were new actors and 4 a
bloody ceremonial. Seven hundred and q
forty nIne Judges were altering the :
words Of doom on innocence. DURING ,
all one uight aud the following dav the |,
polling OF thls dread Jury continued. /
There was 10 be heard tns h"urso en- I
phatlc tones OF the Jacobln, re nprsu.css- n
~ prohounclng his bloody o2iu,1u--,le C
hcsltttlng waISper OF the Gtronjlsi,t1ik- 4
ing eternal W. upon his soul for false {
ludgement-the suns DiTdSe' O. Palue's y
friend aAd leilow-cunsttuliUn monger. Ic
the doubling vote Of Punishment from i
faiue's lips followed by eNccrltions and \
sneers from those who had imported hi m !
Tor slerner uSes-and, last aud worst Of |
all, the hollow voice Of an aDostate Pr. ,
lnce dec rselng death 20 one whose blood i
was kindred 10 his own-aIl these I'm /
quick succession were the incidents of d
that might and day-and yet Paine 7
lived through II, aud meIltated on il I
afterwards without remorse, or without
any thought bat that this was the right
iul effect Of theories that were des,inei
10 trIumOh-aud, though he shrunk from!
being hImSe. / line StttS5,UI, tIe CUutu lat
ilis Ofd back upon the bloody actors in
these scenes, and praise them as the
wise aud good"
Fdlhe was soon TO taste Of the pOis
oned cup Of revolutionary excess, and
his subsequent career dtTJrd CARTON,
comment on his usurycd functions Of "a
rHtSen Judge. lie was, is we have stated. =
nalurallzed, or in NJ. Theirs phrase. Il
elected citizen on his arrival in Fran q
ce' and qualified by this process to take il
hts seat IN the Convention. He was +
ihen made one OF the philosophic trium. O
vIrate with Seiyes and Condorcet. TO f
prepare the plan Of a constitution. Ana. S
charlsIs CiootZ and himself were the only 9
Two TRANSMITTED foreigners in the Con !
vention, On the fall Of the Gironde, in /
order probably TO get rid Of them, a de ,
cree was passed eXpelling all who were ,
not natives of France. The next dav.
by natural transition, they found their /
way to the cells OF the Luxembourg. +
he next step was ~ a revolutionary @
distinction to which Paine did not as. |
pre-, aud, in his reasonable terror at the c
thought OF death, he applied 10 Gouyern- [
eur Morris TO obtain his release As an /
American citizen, But, with the honours /
oi French citizenship, he has assumed I
It's responsibilities, and the Minister Of d
Justice very peremtorily replied to this {
effect TO Mr. Morris intercessIon In
vain did Paine argue in favour Of indie. /,
feasible allcgiance-in vain did he as
sert that, having once become an Ameri.
can citizen. he could not he renowned as
Such--the logic was too subtle for Rob.
esnIerre and FoJquier Tiuvilie, and
could not unlock the prison doors. Be. ,
sides, # allegiance we're thus inaliena.
bic, England mad a scr, Of pre.emption
right IN h'm-ior within her realm he
had been born, aud thi.her he had vol.
unfairly returned. For eleven months.
throughout the whole Reign Of 1error.
did no remain prisoner iu the Luygn-
bourg.
GLOW he escaped the wholesale ipd.s.|
crimInative slaughter Of that awful be.
Rod mas never been precisely ascertain.
ed Nr. Morrison attributes it 10 the
contempt into which he had sunk. and
Paine accounts for is By the mistake Of.
The laIiOr In marking the cells Of the /
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