Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-11-16

I q
canism In the midst of his detail, low but
singulary clear voice was heard from the ex-
tremty of the hall" Descend, man of massa-
| cre."
g saw Danton start back as if he had been
! shot. Atlength, recovering his BREATH he teebly
said--'Citlzens of what am | accusedP 'Of the
three days of September uttered the voice again,
in tone so strongly sepulchral, that 1t palpa-
bly, awed the whole assemblage.
"Who is it that insutcd met Who dares to
maiign me! What spy of the Girondists, what
traitor of the Bourbons what hireling of the gold
of Pitt is among us?' exclaimed the bold ruffian,
yet with a visage, which even at distance,
could see had lost its fiery hue, and turned clay
/ color.
- T. replied the voice, and saw tall fig
IRE stalk up the length of the hall, and stand at
/ the foot of the tribune Descend was the word
which he spoke; and Danton, as if under a spell,
! TO my ast0nishmont obeyed without a word, and
came down. The stranger took his place; none
knew his name; and the rapdity aud boldness of
I hsFassault, suspended all in wonder like my own
can give but most incomplete conception Of
! the extraordinary eloquence OF this mysterious
/ intruder. He openly charged Danton with hav-
/ ing constructed the whole conspiracy against the
unfortunate prisoners of September; with having
deceived the people by imaginary alarms of the
approach of the enemy; with having plunderGd
( the national treasury to pay the assasSns; and
| the last and most deadly charge of ALL with haV-
! ing formed plan for National Dictatorship, of
which he was to BE- the first professor. The
charge sufficiently probable and was not
now heard for the first time. But the keenncss
! and fiery promptitude with which the speaker
/ poured the charge upon him, gave it a new as
! pect; ard cluld see in the changing pAysio-no-
mics around me, that the great Jacobin was al
ready in danger. lie obviously felt this him.
/ self, for starting up from the bench to which he
had returned, he cried out, or rather yelled:
"' CtizanS, this man thirsts for my blood. Am
! | to be sacrificed? Am to be exposed 10 the
/ danger OF assassination? But no answering shout
arose; a dead silence reigned; all eyes were still
turned on the tribune. | saw Danton, after a
gaZe of total helpless on all sides, throw up his
hands like drowning man and stagger to his
seat. Nothing could be more unfortunate than
this interruption; for the speaker poured fourth
the renewed inyective, like molten iron, full on
his personal character and career.
Born beggar, your only hope of bread was
crime. Adopting the profession of an advocate,
your only conception of law was chicanery.-
Coming to Paris, YOU took up patriotism as a
trade, and turned the trade into an imposturc.-
Trained to dependence, Won always hung on
dust before the Mraboau; You took refuge in
the cavern of Murat, until he found you too base
for even his base companionship, and he, too,
I spurned YOU; Won then chung to the skirts OF
/ Robaspierre, chung on to ruin. Viper! known
only By your coil, and your posons; Ike the
orr final serpent, degraded from the brute even
to the reptile. YOU already feel your sentence. !
pronounce it before all. The man to whom you
now clinr will crush YOU. Maximilian Robes
pierre. is not your heel lifted up to tread out the
life OF this traitor! AIaximillian Robcspierre, dc
not speak the truth? Have | not stripped the
veil from your thoughts! Am | not looking at
vour heart? He then addressed the Jacobr
leaders in a brief appeal Bllaud Narenncs
stand f1nh--do you not long to drive the dagger
into the heart of this new tyrant? Coot Her
bois, are YOU not sworn to destroy him? Cou
thOn have Won not pronounced him perIurCd, per
tidons and unfit to live? St. Just, have yon no
. in vour bosom list of those who have pledgeC
themselves that Dr0ton shall never be Dictator
that his crave shall b. dug, before he shall trea,
on the first step of the throne? that his aShe:
shall be scattered to the four winds OF Heaven
, that he shall never gorge on France!
\ hollow echo like the murmur Of the vault
. beneath. repeated the concluding words. Tn
j lnurmur h&d scarcely subsidized when the extra
, ordinary apaaritiun. fingiug around him lon;
white CLOAK, which he had hitherto carried O.
his arm. and which, in the dim light, gave hn
= the look Of one covered with a shrond. cried on
q in a voice Of still greater solemnty, 'Georg
i Jacques Danton, you have this night pronounce
y the death of your king; now pronounce You
!, own. By the victims of the 10th of June--b
/ the victims of the 10th of August-by the vic
TINS of the ID of Septcmbcr-by the thousand
whom your treachery has sent to perish III Il to-
# cign rrave-bv the millions whom the war Whc
p YOU have lindcd will lay in the field OF slangh
# er-I cite YOU to appear before the tribunal whcl
p sits Judge whom none can clude, and none d'
# fy Within one wear and month | cite You
# meet the spirits Of your victims before tn
Throne of the Eternal He stopped; not a vote
- was heard Descended the steps of the tribun
- and stalkcd slowly through the hall; not han
: was raised against him. He pursued his wa
10 with as much calmness and security al II he ha
&; been supernatural yisltant, until ne vanished
= the darkness.
- This singular occurrence threw compile
~ damp on tacir regiciial arior; and as no on
m seemed inclined 70 mount the tribune, the ClI
,n would probably have broken up for the nigh
when loud knocking AT the door, and the bea
IA inc of drums, aroused the drowSy sittcrs on Il
Nd benches. The gallery was as much awake
If eyer, but seemed occupied with evident expect
.. ton Of new revolt or a spectacle; pistols we
y. taken ont to be new primed and the points al
IN cdges Of their knives duly examined.
" The doors at length were thrown open- aud
10 crowd. one halfof whom appeared to be in Il
ln last state of intoxicaon and the other half fro
p insanity. came dancing and carousing into Il
? BODY Of the building. In the midst of the
n troops they carried two bus,s covered with la
a. rels-the bust Of the regicides Ravaillac al
No Clement, with flags. before them, inscribed
= They are glorious. for they slew kings' III
or basts were presented to the president, and the
IN bearers. pair Of poissaders, insisted upon givir
. him the embrace, in sign OF differentiation.
to The president in return, invited them to T.
IT, honors of sitting and thus reinforced the dI
or cussion on the death of the unhappy monar
w commenced once more, and the vote was earn
u bv reclamation The National Convention "
II! Still to be applied to for the completion OF I
70 sentence. but the decree Of the Jacobns was I
Isl law of the land.
he -------