Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-01-20
The New Reign of Terror i'm France.

The little Napoleon who now rules France
though he seems quite as big liar as his uncle,
has none of his magnanimty When the great
er Napoleon seized the reins, the world and his
adversaries were surprised at his leniency. But
the puslllanlmous hypocrite who is now aping
the usurpaticn, does not even ape the cemency
Witness the following news by the last ARRIVAL
"There are at present more than 20 900 per-
sons imprisoned in Paris More than IS 900 are
still incarcerated in the easements of the forts,
with nothing but straw to lie on. The rest have
been shot or butchered.
Demosthenes Olivier, ex-representative, still
in prison at Mazas, has related to lady who
gained access to him, the following monstrosty:
"Durlng three successive nights they awakened
US en- ndsse, telling us that were TO be shot
They then ordered us to descend into the square,
where, after an hour Of frshtful anxiety, they
ordered us 10 return to cells, telling US that
the execution was not to take place that night, but
that probably it would the next. They thus made
us thrice suffer the terrible throes of deash''
1t can easily be conceived that after such re-
lined crullties, no others were spared. A woman
during six days refused TO reveal the Whereabouts
other husband; they therefore took her three lit
tie children, the eldest of which was only six
JCdiS olu, anu snultlllS tlGHI up Ill H6I TOOu1,
dragged the poor mothert to the prefecture OF po-
lice. ''Your Children said they, ''sha not
eat until you reveal where your husband So
Horribly tortured between the pangs of wife
and mother, she remained twenty four hours
without saying word. After twenty four hours
had elapsed, they reminded her of her children
not having eaten. She still PERSISTED silence,
and it was only about noon--vz after the lapse
Of thirty six hours-that the thought of her chill
dren not having partaken of any food drove her
mad; she then revealed the abode of her hus-
band.
The military laws authorize every enemy taken
with arms in hand, to be shot; but here, in Paris,
thousands Of people have been arrested since the
9Th, when the pretended hostnies were over.
All the men designated republicans in their quar-
tiers, were seized and thrown into prison, in
which many were massacred. On the first day,
they shot at the prefecture de police, but as
the lusilading was too NOISY, they substituted on
the following days, the axe and the sabre TO ac-
complish their bloody work. 1t was a Sergent
de UilLe who himself related the lugubrious dra-
ma. Met by one of his old friends, he was asked
why he was in plain dress. 81 can endure it no
longer. . he answered. "We have been, during
four days, employed at the prefecture de police,
to raise the and The sabre against the people,
and could not stand it any longer, so left. Sew
eral sergents de vile have become insane We
were sweltering in blood up to our knees; at
length | was seized with terror" And indeed
the sergents de vile, once so arrogant can no
longer look any one in the face, so utterly do they
feel themselves debased. Atthe prison Of Mazas,
many prisoners were shot. The scenes Of the I'd
of September, 1892. were renewed. The prs.
oners were brought to the spot Of execution, and
were ordered to go to the right or to the left
Those who went out through the door to the night
were shot, the others not.
The plan of all those unheard of cruelties is to
annhiate all those in the Republican party, capa-
BILE taking the initiative, or of melting the mass
ess. This plan is carried out with an internal
calculation. The most innocent people are i'm
pllcated in the vague accusation Of having partc-
ipated in plot