New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-05

TOOK my seat IN the Chamber, little thinking
Mt that time Of the crime and the bloodshed to
which our revolution, so moderate in its begin
ming, would lead-little thinking that had
taken the first irretrieyable step towards the
bloody and violent death which was lying in
store for me
s Need / go on You know how warmly
joined the Grondin party you know how we
have been sacrificed; you know what the death
is which and my brethren are to suffer to-
morrow. On now ending. / repeat what said
at the beginning: Judge not Of my narrative
really takes place in the morning. Illave care
fully abstained from all comment-I have sim
ply related events as they happened, forbearing
to add my views of their significance, my own
ideas on the explanation of which they admit
You may believe us to have been family of
nervous visionaries-witnesses of certain re-
markable contingencies-victims of curious but
not impossible chances, which we have fancifulfy
and falsely interpreted into supernatural events
l leave you undisturbed in this conviction, (if
you really feel it). Tomorrow you will think
dlfferently tly-to-morrow you will be an altered
man. In the meantime, remember what now
say, as you would remember my dying words !:
Last night / saw the supernatural radiance
which warned my father and my brother, and
warns me, that, whatever the time when the
execution begins, whatever the order in which
the twenty Girondins are chosen for death,
| shall be the man who kneels under the guillo-
tine as the clock strikes nine!'
| 1t was morning. Of the CHASTITY festivities of
| the night no sign remained The prison hall
wore an altered look, as the twenty -one con-
demned men. Followed by those who were or
dered to witness their execution,) were marched
out to the carts appointed to take them from
the dungeon to the scaffold.
| The sly waa c1nud 1aas he c,,n xuo,,n, a,,f1
brilliant, as the GiroDdin leaders and their
companions were drawn slowly through the
| streets to the place Of execution. Uuprat aud
A1arigny were placed in separate vehicles. The
contrast in their demeanor at that awful mo-
ment was strongly marked. The features Of
the doomed man still preserved their noble and
melancholy repose. His glance was steady
his color never changed. The face of Marigny,
on the contrary, displayed the strongest agita-
ton; he was pale even to his lips The terri
BILE narrative he had heard, the anticipation of
the final and appalling proof by which its truth
was now to be tested, had robbed him, for the
first time in his life, of all his self possession
Duprat had predicted truly the morrow had
come, and he was an altered man already.
The carts drew up at the foot Of the scaffold
which was soon to be stained with the blood oi
twenty -one human beings. The condemned de-
puties mounted it, and ranged themselves al
the end opposite the guillotine. The prisoners
who were to behold the execution remained il
their cart. Before Duprat ascended the steps
J he took his friends hand for the last time
" Farewell! - he said, calmly" Farewell
go to my father and my brother! Remembe
my words of last night
With straining eyes and bloodless cheeks
Marigny saw Duprat take his position in th
, middle row of his companions, who stood il
three ranks of seven each. Then the awfu
spectacle of the execution began After tn
first seven deputies had suffered, there was
. pause the horrible traces Of the judicial mas
, sacre we're being removed. When the execu
ton proceeded, Duprat was the third taken iron
the middle rank of the condemned. Ashe cam
! forward, and stood for an instant erect unde
the guillotine, he looked with a smile on hi
friend, and repeated in clear voice the word
&c Remember n'--then bowed himself on tn
block. The blood stood still at A1arignys heari
e as he looked and listened, during the moment I
silence that followed. That moment past, til
!, church clock of Paris struck He dropped dow
in the cart, and covered his face with his hands
y for through the heavy beat Of the hour he hea,
v the fall of the fatal steel.
., 's Pray. sir, was it nine or ten that strut
a just now p said one of Marigny's fellow -priso
) ers to officer of the guard who stood near Il
cart. ss4l
il The person addressed referred to his watc
, y and answered. NINE o'CLoCKr'