The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-05-13

ellis name condemned him. lie march
ed to death among the throng Of tho multi.
tude. His punishment was no less than a
protractsd assassination. His head bare,
his hair cut, his lands tied behind his back
with an enonmois cord; his body covered
only by a shirt, beneath freezing sky, he
slowly tIaversed The quarters Of the capital.
The refuse and scum Of Paris, whom he
had long restrained. appeared 10 rise and
precipitate themselves like q torrent round
the wheels. 1.-the executioners themselves,
indignant at this ferocity, rsprosched the
people with their outrages. The populace
was only the more implacable. The horde
had insisted that the guillotine, generally
placed at tho Place-de-la-Corlcords, should
be that day transported 10 the Champ-de-
Mars, that blood might wash out The blood
upon the ground where il had been shed.--
Men who called themselves relations, friends
or avengers Of th, victims OF the Champ-de-
Mars, carried fag in derision. by the side
Of tumbril, at the end Of pole. They
dipped it from time TO time in the gutter,
and violently whipped Bailly's face with it.
Others spat in his face. His features LAGER
ated and soiled with dust and blood, no lon
ger presented human form. Roars OF
laughter and applause encouraged these hor-
rors. The march, interrupted at stations,
lasted three hours, arrived at the place OF
execution, these refined men Of wrath made
Bailly descend from the tumbril, and forced
him to make On foot the tour of the Champ
de-Mars; they ordered him to lick the ground
on which the blood of the people had flow.
ed. Even this eIpiation did not satisfy
them. The guillotine had been erected in
the enclosure itself Of the Champ-ds-Mar
The earth of the federation appeaIed TO the
people too sacred TO be stained by an exc.
cution. The execuioners were ordered Ia
take down the scaaold piece by piece, and
to reconstruct it close 70 The banks of the
Seine. upon dung heap accumulated from
the sewers Of Paris. The executioners
we're constrained 10 obey. The machine
was dismantled. As if to parody the pun
ishment Of Christ bearing his cross, the mon
sters loaded the shoulders Of the old man
with the heavy beams which supported the
platform Of the scafiold. Their blows com
PEELED the condemned to drag himself along
under this weight. He tainted under bis
burden; coming to himself he arose, and
shouts of laughter rallied him upon his age
and infrmities. They made him look on,
during an hour, at the tardy reconstruction
of his own scafold. Rain, mingled with
snow, inundated his head, and fIoze his
limbs. His body trembled with cold. His
soul was firm. His grave and placid coun-
.enance preserved its serenity. His impas-
sable reason passed above this populace,
and looked beyond them. He tasted mar,
tyrdom, and did not find it more bitter than
the hope for which he submitted to it, He
discoursed calmly with the assistants. One
Of them, seeing him Paralyzed with cold,
said to him, ''you tremble, Bailly." "Yes
my friend" replied the old man to him,
'but it is with cold" At last the axe ter
minated this scene Of protracted cruelty. II
had lasted five hours. Bailly pitied the
people, thanked the execltoner, and conf
ded himself TO Immortality. Few victims
ever met with viler executioners, few execu-
TONERS with so exalted a victim. Lamar
tines GiToDdists.