East Saginaw courier., 1862-10-28

WftC OF Desfnouilhs, WTotc iU tne Ioi
lowing terms to Robespierrc, who hat
doomed her daughter to death. Sh,
and Lucille and Desmoulins had form
erly been Robespierro's most intimate
friends.
"Robespierre," she wrote. ais it mo-
enough to have assassinated your bcs
friend? Do yo1 desire the blood OF hl'
wife, my daughter Two hours more
and she will not be in existence. 20
bespierre, ii you are not tiger in hu
,nan shape, " the blood OF Camille has
OF inebriated you to the losing Of your
reason entirely-if you recall still oui
evenings Of intimrcy-if you recall the
caresses lavished on our little Horace
and how you delighted to hold him
upon your knees, spare an innocent
victim. Rut if thy fury is that of the
lion, come and take me also, and my
daughter Adele and little Horace
Come with hands reeking 10 the blood
of Camille, and let one single tomb rc-
unite u.s."
But Robespicrre was inexorable, and
the young and beautiful Lucille perish.
ed beneath the fatal axe. Robespierre
was one of the most inexplicable Of men.
His moral character was irreproachable.
No bribes could corrupt him. He sin.
cerely endeavored to establish a repub.
lie upon the basis Of popular liberty
and virtue. Selfaggrandizement was
not part of his plan. But he was as
merciless as the slide of the guillotine
At times, indeed, he seemed weary of
blood. On one occasion hc remarked,
"Death, always death; and the scoun.
drels threw all tho responsibility on me.
What a memory shall | leave behind
me, il this lasts? Life is burden to
me-"
A young girl, Cecile Regnsu!t, but
seventeen years of ago, was accused of
plotting the assassination of Robespierre
She aud all her friends perished on the
scaffold, and eight carts were filled with
victims to avenge this crime. But the
tickle populace at last began to suspect
their idol Of being unfriendly to the
Revolution, and of wishing to arrest its
torrent Of blood. In six months two
thousand three hundred and seventy.
five had perrishcd upon the scaffold
in Paris alone. Robespierre, weary of
blood, attempted to check senseless at.
rocitics. A conspiracy Of very ener.
getic men was formed against him
As he entered the conver ton on the
29th Of July, 1894, cries of "Down
with the tyrant!" filled the honse.
Overwhelmed by the clamor, Robes.
pierre IN vain endcavored to speak in
sefdcfense, "Prcsident of assassins,"
he shouted, twill you hear me ?" He
was arrested and led to the Hotel dc
Brione in the Place du Carrousel. Ills
friends rescued him and carried him to
the Mayors room at tho Hotel dc Vile.
1t was now uight, and all Paris was
in blaze of commotion, mobs surging
through tho streets. A detachment Of
soldiers were sen: by the convention To-
arrest Robespierre again. lie was sit.
ting calmly at the table awaiting his
fate. One Of the soldiers discharged a
pistol at him. Tho ball entered his
cheek breaking his jaw and producing
terrible wound. His head dropped
upon the table. dcluging it with blood.
Thus mangled, he was borne on litter,
just as the day was beginning to dawn,
to the hall of convention, lie was laid
on table ia an ante. room, while n vast
croud gathered aoound to gaze upon
the fallen dictator. He was over.
whcmed with insults. The blood
flowed freely from his wound, cong.
ulating in his mouth, and choaking him
as it trlckled down his throat. After
passing an hour Of almost uncomfortable
agony, he, with his brother and several
others of his friends, were brought he
fore the Revolutionary Tribunal. The
trial coupled but few moments, and
they were all doomed to die.
At 5 o'clock Of the same evening, the
cart conveyed them through the Rue
st. Honore to tho Place de Ia Revolu
ton. liobespierre ascendcd the scat
fold with firm step. As the cxccu.
toner brutally tore the bandage from
his infamed wound, he uttered a shrek
of torture which pierced every car. In
another moment the axe Of the guillU.
tine glided swiftly down its groove, and
the head of Robespierre fell into the
basket. There was moments silence,
and then there came from the lips of
those who, but ehort time before,
were ting hosanna to his name.
burst of the widest applause. Thus
died Robesqicrrc in the thirty 6fih yoar
Of his ago.